CBS/COFFERS PhD fellow Saila Stausholm went to the IMF in Washington, D.C. to give a presentation about her paper on tax incentives, entitled “Give us a break: the impact of tax holidays on developing countries”. Her research looks at the phenomenon of tax holidays and its effect on developing countries in terms of economic and […]

Prof. Karin Heitzmann, co-director of the Institute for Inequality INEQ from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, visited COFFERS on Friday 24th of February 2017. She presented her latest work on inequality and the latest OECD data on inequality where she had been involved. COFFERS will cooperate with INEQ for data on inequality.

COFFERS PI Brigitte Unger gave a talk at the European Parliament on Offshore Centers, Tax Havens and Money Laundering at the European Parliament, Panama Committee on Thursday 26th of January 2017. She also wrote a 50-page Briefing document with the same title for the Panama Committee. Link to EP website can be found here.

For the second time, the steering committee of the COFFERS team met for a workshop in Vienna the 8th of March 2017. Located in the Biedermeier Mercure Hotel, the team discussed new theoretical approaches to ecosystem analysis and its application for COFFERS. The Workshop leaders presented their former and future work plans. Ronen Palan, Lucia Flores […]

The OECD’s Global Forum is set to publish the terms of reference for peer reviews on automatic exchange of information pursuant to the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in the near future. The terms of reference for that peer review process in many ways will define how the system of Automatic Exchange of Information works […]

Brigitte Unger PI of COFFERS met Asa Gunnarsson PI of FAIRTAX in Brno, Czech Republic 9th and 10th of March. Both are EU Horizon 2020 projects on taxation that end in 2019. At the conference Brigitte Unger presented COFFERS, Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators, which focuses on tax regulation and its impact. Asa Gunnarsson presented […]

Alex Cobham, research director of Tax Justice Network and COFFERS researcher, recently published jointly with TJN’s Andres Knobel a brief analysis of a new OECD specification on Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) – a topic very dear to COFFERS. Their analysis shows that OECD’s new terms of reference  to assess the implementation by countries of BEPS Action […]

A new article in a Review of International Political Economy special section on Global Wealth Chains edited by COFFERS researchers Leonard Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan. Here, with Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty, Duncan explores conceptual and regulatory challenges posed by the rise of the knowledge economy and intangible assets, such a intellectual property, in terms […]

Public Hearing – The Role of Lawyers, Accountants and Bankers in Panama Papers – (Part I) Brooke Harrington, Copenhagen Business School and Ronan Polan, City University London both participants in the COFFERS project participated in the public hearing – the Role of Lawyers, Accountants and Bankers in Panama Papers in Brussels on January 24th 2017. See link for publications […]

What do they pay? Towards a Public Database to Account for the Economic Activities and Tax Contributions of Multinational Corporations by Alex Cobham, Jonathan Gray and Richard Murphy. This paper reviews the reasons for creating a global database of what is commonly called country-by-country reporting data. This information records the economic activities of and tax contributions […]