Dutch pension fund disinvests from Palantir citing social responsibility concerns

Workers concerned over surveillance practices

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‘Skeletons in its closet’ Uganda’s Daily Monitor on CICTAR’s latest Starbucks report — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Coverage from Uganda’s Daily Monitor of CICTAR’s latest Starbucks report

'Skeletons in its closet' Uganda's Daily Monitor delves into the latest CICTAR research on Starbucks and concludes that it is time for coffee producing nations - especially Uganda - to wake up and smell the coffee.

More coverage of this critical report is pending...

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Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigratio...

Dutch pension fund for public service workers disinvests from US surveillance company Palantir

Ethical investors have concerns about policies of the company

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More from Bloomberg: New Tax Disclosure Regimes Still Leave Gaps in Information — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research CICTAR’s Jason Ward is quoted in a further Bloomberg article on new transparency measures

"The new information will be hugely beneficial, but there will still be some gaps"

CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in an excellent round up by Bloomberg of new tax transparency regimes. Australia is described as the current 'gold standard' but there is plenty more to do!

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Bloomberg: Companies’ Big Use of ‘Tax Havens’ to Be Hit With New Obstacles (Copy) — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research CICTAR’s Jason Ward is quoted in Bloomberg article on new transparency measures and minimum tax requirements for global corporations

“If you’re exempted, why would you change the behavior that you were planning on before?”

CICTAR's Jason Ward, quoted in Bloomberg, commenting on the 'fly in the ointment' for the new global minimum tax regulations. The exemption for US corporations.

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"Having been told that increased diesel storage was the cheapest option to safeguard resilience, Jones’ failure to pursue that option in the last year has left us dangerously exposed." - Edward Miller, article author, current @cictar.bsky.social researcher and former Workers First researcher! ❤️ -s

Starbucks' workers back to negotiations after #strike , boycotts, actions across the world

Proud @epsu.bsky.social @effat.org contributed with protest Brussels- Starbucks Rogier

Success to @sbworkersunited.org

Starbucks a tax avoider.Money enough for better pay and conditions @cictar.bsky.social

5.1K views · 90 reactions | DubAI Ports doesn’t pay their fair share — and now they want to wipe out Aussie jobs and communities with unchecked AI and automation. They should know our ports aren’t a ... DubAI Ports doesn’t pay their fair share — and now they want to wipe out Aussie jobs and communities with unchecked AI and automation. They should know our ports aren’t a playground for corporate...

Check out this video about our new report, from our partners and comrades at the Maritime Union of Australia: www.facebook.com/MaritimeUnio...

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A dozen critical recommendations from the Maritime Union of Australia today to deal with AI’s march through Australian ports. This includes a digital right of access, mandatory negotiations with unions on AI rostering and workforce management and making corporates pay tax!

Job Losses and Profit Shifting at DP World: How Automation Threatens Australia’s Economic Wellbeing — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Report on DP world Australia, with MUA

'For more than a decade DP World paid no corporate income tax...DP World is now attempting to embark on an ambitious AI automation programme that could threaten up to a thousand jobs'

Our new report: cictar.org/all-research...

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Time to make ’em pay! — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Jason Ward writes in Michael West Media on the new searchable database of ATO tax data and why tax transparency is so crucial

'The first step to fix corporate tax dodging is to expose who pays and who doesn’t pay their fair share'

Check out the article from CICTAR's Jason Ward and the new resource, providing data on corporate tax payments over the last 11 years, on michaelwest.com.au :

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Check out my article on making MNCs pay for our public services and our new #TAXDATA tool! @cictar.bsky.social

‘The State Returns’: Public ownership is back in the New Zealand energy sector (but it could be done better). — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research CICTAR’s Ed Miller writes in The Post on the recent NZ government decision on LNG, the alternatives and the implications

'Letting the private sector set the terms of these deals is a recipe for maximum profiteering...even a right-wing government can and will act to guarantee energy security'.

CICTAR's Ed Miller on 'the return of the state'. In New Zealand publication 'The Post':

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Blogs from Tax Justice Network and IUF on CICTAR Starbucks report — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research TJN and IUF blogs on latest Starbucks report

New blogs from our allies at Tax Justice Network and the IUF on CICTAR's latest Starbucks report: cictar.org/news/tjniuf/...

Behind Starbucks’ “ethical sourcing” lies a global tax dodge shifting profits from coffee-producing countries to Switzerland. Customers pay an “ethical” premium while vital revenues for schools & hospitals are lost. - @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social👉 taxjustice.net/2026/02/17/t...

Journalist Karin Wenger in the Swiss media outlet Beobachter: ‘Starbucks presents itself as a pioneer for “ethically procured” coffee worldwide. But a new study shows that high profits are recorded in Switzerland, while coffee countries and farmers hardly benefit’ cictar.org/news/beobach...

New report on how EU procurement rules keep awarding the tax avoiders EU procurement reforms must stop rewarding tax dodging corporations with public money, unions warn.

address tax avoidance in the review of the procurement directives

The proposals how to do this of @cictar.bsky.social ⬇️

We expect the Commission stepping up as estimated loss in the EU due to avoidance and profit shifting is estimated to be annually 150-190 bn Euros (EP)

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Starbucks: Ethical Sourcing or Swiss Swindle? - IUF

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Our New Research Shows Global Corporate Tax Reforms Would Boost Public Revenues by 50% Groundbreaking research shows taxing multinational profits where they are generated at a 25% minimum could expand global public revenues by over $700 billion per year: enough to end extreme poverty te...

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Bloomberg: Companies’ big overseas tax bills spur profit-shifting concerns — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research Bloomberg reports on emerging data from new US transparency laws, which show the scale of tax losses from large multinationals. With quotes from CICTAR’s Jason Ward and other tax justice campaigners.

'Indications that US companies are paying more abroad than at home aren’t surprising' said CICTAR's Jason Ward

“The new data provides specific details to what we already knew...Most large US multinationals are huge global tax dodgers and major abusers of tax havens”

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WATCH: 'Waters Edge' tax breaks would end if California bill passes Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original publication to add a video.

Thrilled to see SEIU driving this much needed and long overdue multinational tax reform in California!!! @cictar.bsky.social has been pushing this for years!

New report reveals huge profits and low taxes made from care home real estate — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research You can read Cofinimmo’s response to the report here . 29th June 2023 - Press Release A new report released today by CICTAR lays bare the little-known world of care home real estate investment an...

so municipalities and regulatory bodies can hire

No attention in the EP Housing report for real estate multinationals
@cictar.bsky.social exposed how they benefit

Role of EIB and other public banks mentioned but again condionalities missing www.epsu.org/article/publ...

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Terrific piece of particular interest to pension fund watchers

Starbucks compra café na Suíça e pode prejudicar Brasil, diz estudo Estudo internacional aponta que rede de cafeterias tem prática de registrar na Suíça as compras do grão, gerando lucros de 18%

"CICTAR recommends that tax authorities in countries where Starbucks operates support centers carefully analyze payments made between these units and the subsidiary in Switzerland." @cictar.bsky.social @coffeewatch.bsky.social
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As @sbworkersunited.org continue the fight for collective agreement, higher pay and better conditions, new report @cictar.bsky.social exposes Starbuck's profit-shifting to Switserland leaving hardly any taxes in coffee producing countries undermining funding public services
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Water for sale: from the Thames to the Amazon — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research The Ecologist explores the parallels between the failures of water privatization in the UK and Brazil, drawing on recent CICTAR research on BRK Ambiental, Brazil’s largest sanitation operator, contro...

Drawing on CICTAR’s recent report on financing of water and sanitation in Brazil, The Ecologist explains how Britain’s water privatisation concept is exported to Brazil, leading to the same stories of polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift: cictar.org/news/ecologi...

New CICTAR report shows Starbucks shifts global coffee profits to Switzerland via an 18% mark‑up, moving an estimated US$1.3B over a decade. Meanwhile, little support reaches farmers. A clear case of profit extraction from the Global South.

Mônica Bergamo: Starbucks concentra lucros na Suíça e repassa impostos para países produtores, diz relatório OUTRO LADO: Empresa diz cumprir integralmente as leis tributárias em todo o mundo

@cictar.bsky.social Starbucks report lands in Brazil's largest newspaper! Time for coffee-producing countries to tax the profits Starbucks shifts to Switzerland and to push for global tax reforms!!! (paywall & Portuguese warning)