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112 • Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging<br />
242. Ibid.<br />
fairer_corporate_taxation/com_2015_302_en.pdf<br />
243. According to the Financial Secrecy Index, “Liberia accounts for less<br />
than 1 per cent of the global market for offshore financial services,<br />
making it a tiny player compared with other secrecy jurisdictions”.<br />
See Tax Justice Network. (2013). Financial Secrecy Index –<br />
Narrative report on Liberia. Accessed 30 August 2015: http://www.<br />
financialsecrecyindex.com/PDF/Liberia.pdf<br />
244. The Guardian. (2015). Tax haven blacklist omits Luxembourg as<br />
Brussels announces reform plans. Published 17 June 2015. Accessed<br />
28 August 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/<br />
luxembourg-tax-haven-blacklist-brussels-european-commission.<br />
The jurisdictions on the list are: Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and<br />
Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin<br />
Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Guernsey, Hong Kong,<br />
Liberia, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Monaco,<br />
Montserrat, Nauru, Niue, Panama, Saint Kittis and Nevis, Saint Vincent<br />
and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin<br />
Islands, Vanatu.<br />
245. European Commission. (2015). A study on R&D tax incentives. Taxation<br />
Papers, Working Paper N. 52, p.22 & 46, Accessed 28 August 2015:<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/<br />
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246. King & Wood Mallesons. (2015). EU ends patent box scrutiny. Published<br />
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uk/knowledge/insights/eu-ends-patent-box-scrutiny-20150216#<br />
247. European Commission. (2015). A fair and efficient corporate tax system<br />
in the European Union: 5 key areas for action. SWD(2015) 121, p.10.<br />
Published 17 June 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://ec.europa.<br />
eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/company_tax/<br />
fairer_corporate_taxation/com_2015_302_en.pdf<br />
248. Alex Cobham. (2015). Will the patent box break BEPS? Published 20<br />
July 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://uncounted.org/2015/07/20/<br />
will-the-patent-box-break-beps/<br />
249. European Commission. (2015). Proposal for a Council Directive<br />
amending Directive 2011/16/EU as regards mandatory automatic<br />
exchange of information in the field of taxation”, SWD(2015) 60 final.<br />
Accessed 28 August 2015: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/<br />
resources/documents/taxation/company_tax/transparency/<br />
com_2015_135_en.pdf<br />
250. European Commission. (2007). Communication from the Commission<br />
to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic<br />
and Social Committee on the work of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing<br />
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and on guidelines for advance pricing agreements within the EU”,<br />
COM(2007) 71. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://ec.europa.eu/<br />
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251. Eurodad. (2015). Getting the EU response to the tax dodging scandal<br />
right. Published 27 March 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://<br />
www.eurodad.org/Entries/view/1546370/2015/03/27/Getting-the-EUresponse-to-the-tax-dodging-scandal-right<br />
252. Ibid. For a similar critique of the Commission’s expert group on the<br />
automatic exchange of financial information see Corporate Europe<br />
Observatory. (2015). Commission continues to ask tax offenders for<br />
advise on tax regulation. Published 29 April 2015. Accessed 28 August<br />
2015: http://corporateeurope.org/expert-groups/2015/04/commissioncontinues-ask-tax-offenders-advice-tax-regulation<br />
253. These groups are: Eurodad, the Financial Transparency Coalition<br />
and the BEPS Monitoring Group. See Corporate Europe Observatory.<br />
(2015). Groundhog day: Commission asks tax dodgers for tax advise<br />
(again). Published 25 June 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://<br />
corporateeurope.org/expert-groups/2015/06/groundhog-daycommission-asks-tax-dodgers-tax-advice-again<br />
254. European Ombudsman. (2015). Ombudsman: How to make the<br />
Commission’s expert groups more balanced and transparent. Press<br />
release dated 30 January 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://<br />
www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/press/release.faces/en/58870/html.<br />
bookmark<br />
255. European Commission. (2015) Technical analysis of focus and scope<br />
of the legal proposal accompanying the document Proposal for a<br />
Council Directive amending Directive 2011/16/EU as regards exchange<br />
of information in the field of taxation, COM(2015) 135, p.15-16: http://<br />
ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/<br />
company_tax/transparency/swd_2015_60.pdf<br />
256. Eurodad. (2015). European Commission’s Tax Transparency Package<br />
keeps tax deals secret. Press release dated 18 March 2015: http://<br />
www.eurodad.org/Entries/view/1546360/2015/03/17/European-<br />
Commission-s-Tax-Transparency-Package-keeps-tax-deals-secret<br />
257. European Commission. (2015). Communication from the Commission<br />
to the European Parliament and the Council on tax transparency to<br />
fight tax evasion and avoidance, COM(2015) 136, p.5: http://ec.europa.<br />
eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/company_tax/<br />
transparency/com_2015_136_en.pdf<br />
258. European Commission. (2015). A fair and efficient corporate tax system<br />
in the European Union: 5 key areas for action, SWD(2015) 121, p.13.<br />
Published 17 June 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://ec.europa.<br />
eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/company_tax/<br />
fairer_corporate_taxation/com_2015_302_en.pdf<br />
259. European Commission. (2014). General assessment of economic<br />
consequences of country-by-country disclosure requirements set<br />
out in Article 89 of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament<br />
and of the Council of 26 June 2013, COM(2014) 676, p.9. Accessed 28<br />
August 2015: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/company/docs/<br />
modern/141030-cbcr-crd-report_en.pdf<br />
260. Sven Giegold. (2015). EU tax policy Commission continues softly, softly<br />
approach to corporate tax avoidance. Published 27 May 2015. Accessed<br />
28 August 2015: http://www.sven-giegold.de/2015/eu-tax-policycommission-continues-softly-softly-approach-to-corporate-taxavoidance/<br />
261. See Commissioner Věra Jourová’s statements at the European<br />
Parliament’s plenary vote on the shareholder’s rights directive (at<br />
16:57) on European Parliament TV. (2015). Long-term shareholder<br />
engagement and corporate governance statement. Plenary debate<br />
7 July 2015 in Strasbourg. Accessed 30 August 2015: http://www.<br />
europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/plenary/video?debate=1436276935760#<br />
262. European Commission. (2015). Commissioner Moscovici’s speech: The<br />
future of tax policy: A matter for society as a whole – closing address –<br />
‘the way forward’. Speech delivered 29 May 2015. Accessed 28 August<br />
2015: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-15-4900_en.htm<br />
263. European Commission. (2013). Proposal for a directive of the<br />
European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the<br />
use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering<br />
and terrorist financing, 2013/0025 (COD), Article 29 & 30. Accessed<br />
28 August 2015: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/<br />
PDF/?uri=CELEX:52013PC0045&from=EN<br />
264. Council of the European Union. (2015). Proposal for a directive of the<br />
European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of<br />
the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist<br />
financing, 2013/0025(COD), Article 29. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://<br />
www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/cj12/dv/<br />
draft_compromisetext_20150112_/draft_compromisetext_20150112_<br />
en.pdf<br />
265. Austria was the only major exception to this agreement, as it insisted<br />
on a different timeline than other EU Member States, which would only<br />
see it exchanging information from 2018 instead of 2017. See Council<br />
of the European Union. (2014). Combatting tax evasion: Council agrees<br />
to extend automatic exchange of information. Press release dated 14<br />
October 2014. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://www.consilium.europa.<br />
eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ecofin/145103.pdf<br />
266. Council of the European Union. (2015). EU-Switzerland taxation<br />
agreement signed in joint effort to improve tax compliance. Press<br />
release dated 27 May 2015. Accessed 28 August 2015: http://www.<br />
consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/05/27-eu-