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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In the three months to June 2026, Palantir’s pre-tax profit hit $1.081 billion off $1.935 billion in revenue, an astonishing 55% profit margin. Yet the company reported an income tax expense for the quarter of just $15.4 million, or 1.4%. Read more here: cictar.org/news/blog/pa...
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CICTAR Blog: Palantir’s quarterly results show that things just got worse — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
CICTAR Blog on Palantir’s latest quarterly results
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
CICTAR is proud to be supporting the 'Public Futures Aotearoa' group, advocating for more public ownership of public assets and services in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Public ownership saves money, protects workers and delivers more. cictar.org/news/thepost...
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Public Futures Aotearoa: CICTAR supports new group to promote public ownership — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
With strong CICTAR involvement, a new group is launched in Aotearoa, New Zealand, to promote the benefits of public ownership of social assets and services.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And more on the call of @sbworkersunited.org to call for boycott Starbucks See also company's tax dodging schemes as exposed by @cictar.bsky.social cictar.org/all-research...
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12,000 Starbucks Workers Call for Boycott of Law-Breaking Coffee Chain
Starbucks workers who have joined the unionizing effort that started in Buffalo, New York in 2021 and has spread to over 700 stores across the country called on all working people to show solidarity b...
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Public service unions put Palantir's accounts on the front pages. Now PSI, @cictar.bsky.social, @epsu.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk want governments to review the contracts already signed, and stop handing public money to firms that dodge their share. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 ✊
PSI graphic headed EXPOSED: Palantir's tiny tax rate is making global headlines, showing torn press clippings from Politico, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Follow the Money, euobserver and Breakthrough News.
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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New report - "Palantir may also be engaged in extensive tax dodging, allowing it to avoid contributing to the public services it profits from" breakthroughnews.org/2026/08/06/p...
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Palantir profits from European public services but avoids millions in taxes that fund them, new report shows - BT News
A new CICTAR-EPSU report finds a USD 14 million tax gap as Palantir books European profits in the US.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Palantir wants Europe’s public money. Paying tax? Not so much. 💸 $1.66bn pre-tax profit 💸 $22.7m corporate tax worldwide 💸 1.4% effective tax rate Yet it keeps winning public contracts. The EU's procurement rules are being rewritten. Now is the moment to say: 𝗡𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀!
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do subsidiaries of global corporations act as independent businesses as though they were unrelated companies? No. Yet that is the fiction on which global tax rules rely. And as CICTAR's research shows, it is a fiction that allows industrial level tax dodging: www.commondreams.org/opinion/corp...
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The Century-Old Legal Fiction Costing America $35.5 Billion a Year | Common Dreams
The international corporate tax system treats the subsidiaries of major corporations as independent businesses, allowing these companies to pay tax where they say and not where they actually play.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Report @cictar.bsky.social on tax avoidance Palantir continues to ruffle Europe Here with @humanite.fr ⬇️ Will @steph-sejourne.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu make sure update procurement rules allows public authorities to address tax avoidance ? How@ ➡️ www.epsu.org/article/new-... @epsu.bsky.social
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Optimisation fiscale : comment Palantir échappe aux impôts en Europe - L'Humanité
Un rapport publié en juillet par le Center for international corporate tax accountability and research (CICTAR) détaille comment l’entreprise de surveillance de masse parvient à contou...
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Axelle Van Wynsberghe @axelle-vw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Palantir funnels earnings to the US, while paying no US federal corporate income tax. And @cictar.bsky.social found 26% of Palantir’s revenue came from abroad - yet 96% of pretax profit was booked in the US. European taxpayers shouldn’t be funding public contracts that funnel revenue abroad.
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Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Palantir paid no U.S. federal income tax last year despite recording substantial profits. truthout.org/articles/pal...
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Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax. Its Global Tax Rate Is Just 1.4 Percent.
The infamous surveillance company paid $22.7 million in global corporate taxes while raking in $1.6 billion in profits.
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Demands of fair finance groups to disinvest from Palantir are supported by new @cictar.bsky.social report on its tax avoidance behaviour It should certainly not get public money @fairfinanceint.bsky.social @fairfinance.bsky.social @fairfinancesa.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be @counterbalance.social
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Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report
A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Interesting piece from @opendemocracy.net exploring how one of the tax loopholes used by Palantir (discussed in our recent report) came into existence. 'Tax laws...are subjective and the result of policy debates, corporate lobbying and political compulsion' www.opendemocracy.net/the-big-blai...
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The big Blair-era loophole behind Palantir’s tiny tax bill
Palantir’s UK CEO Louis Mosley says the company uses “a standard tax incentive” to minimise corporate tax. But the UK is one of the few countries that allows for this.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"a slap in the face to ordinary taxpayers and local businesses who play by the rules" Duncan McCann, tech and data lead at the Good Law Project quoted in the excellent Al Jazeera explainer of CICTAR's Palantir report: cictar.org/news/aljazee...
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More media coverage of Palantir report: Al Jazeera explainer and other useful links — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Al Jazeera and other media coverage of Palantir report
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
'Our system is broken' Listen to a discussion on CICTAR's report on outsourced job services in Australia, with ABC's business and economics editor Gareth Hutchens: cictar.org/news/abc/ror...
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Our Job System is Broken — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
‘Rort report’ podcast
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Vindication of the findings from the excellent Glencore investigations by @taxwatch.bsky.social ...and the depressing truth about how these global giants can spin out an investigation whilst continuing to play their tricks (via Switzerland). Glencore was subject of a CICTAR report in 2021.
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TaxWatch @taxwatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Buried in today's half-year results from commodities giant Glencore is confirmation of a scoop that @taxwatch.bsky.social and The Observer published in May 🧵
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 07/08/2026
Outsourced (un)employment services who receive billions in public money are dodging taxes & using profits to line the pockets of politicians who hold the purse strings. Thanks 7am & @garethhutchens.bsky.social for this dicussion of @cictar.bsky.social's report: 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/our...
Quote: They're using things like offshore profit shifting... contracts are awarded to private companies to deliver what are essential services. They are very reliant on those government contracts. 

So you start seeing a lot of large political donations. It's just part of the system.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"'The Trump administration has not only been granting record amounts in new contracts to #Palantir but is running a global protection racket to help it—along with larger US tech giants—avoid paying tax both in the US and globally,’ @cictar.bsky.social & @epsu.bsky.social's report contends."
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🤑 #Palantir is cashing in on European public contracts while shifting profits to the US, where it paid no federal income tax for the third year. @euperspectives.bsky.social reports on new @cictar.bsky.social research: public money must come with tax conditions! 📰👇 euperspectives.eu/2026/08/pala...
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Palantir cashes in on European public contracts. Europe sees little tax in return - EU Perspectives
A new report says Palantir pays little tax in Europe despite major public contracts, as profits are shifted to the US.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Who Pays for the Surveillance State? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Who pays for the surveillance state?
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Systems that enable tax to be shirked on an industrial scale clearly have to change. The likes of Palantir need to stump up what’s due" Unison Gen Sec Andrea Egan, quoted in the Guardian responding to CICTAR's latest report on global tech company Palantir: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨 Breaking New report @cictar.bsky.social on tax behaviour US Big Tech company Palantir Benefitting from public money but avoiding paying fair taxes undermining finance for public services and public pensions @corporateeurope.org @taxobservatory.bsky.social www.epsu.org/article/pala...
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Coca-Cola’s tax magic means big earnings for the world's largest soft-drinks manufacturer, but billions in lost revenue for ordinary Brazilians, shows our new report with ACT Brasil cictar.org/all-research... #taxjustice
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The Tax Magic of Coca-Cola — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
This report reveals a global pattern of tax aggressive behaviour by Coca-Cola, which penalises governments worldwide and benefits billionaire investors. The report specifically analyses the case of B...
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A mágica fiscal da Coca-Cola significa lucros enormes para a maior fabricante de refrigerantes do mundo, mas bilhões em receita perdida para o povo brasileiro, revela o novo relatório do CICTAR cictar.org/all-research... #justiçafiscal
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A mágica tributária da Coca-Cola — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH A Coca-Cola, com receita global anual de US$ 47,1 bilhões em 2024, é a maior corporação de bebidas do mundo. Este relatório revela um padrão global de comportamento fiscalm...
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Livi Gerbase, pesquisadora do CICTAR, fala sobre a “mágica tributária” da Coca-Cola no #Brasil (É dizer como o Brasil perde bilhões em receitas) no podcast @edasuaconta.bsky.social podcasts.taxjustice.net/pt-br/episod...
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#84 Manobras da Coca-Cola, agronegócio e setor imobiliário para lucrar mais - Tax Justice Network podcasts
Podcast sobre como consertar a economia para que ela funcione para todas as pessoas e o planeta.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another billion dollars over 30 years? DP World is known to CICTAR, with previous reports on operations in Canada, Australia and globally. Now, CICTAR researcher Ed Miller looks into the financials for a DP World led consortium bid for Lyttelton Port in New Zealand: cictar.org/news/interes...
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Another billion dollars over 30 years? CICTAR’s Edward Miller looks at DP World’s consortium bid for Lyttelton Port — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Ed Miller examines the financial case for a DP World led consortium takeover of Lyttelton Port
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Proud to have worked with CPSU to highlight, and challenge, the profiteering and lack of transparency in the outsourced jobseekers sector www.cpsu.org.au/CPSU/Content... @cpsu.org.au
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Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires
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Drew Wolfendale - Fusion Party President @drewwolf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yup, this should either be a government run service, or at worst, restricted to be the sole domain of the non-profit sector. For-profit employment services should be prohibited.
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Bratislava @nondescriptive.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I knew this system was monstrous but I genuinely did not expect corporations profiting -handsomely- from it to be such a shambles Transparency is kind of a boring demand but it's shocking how little accountability there is for govt contractors
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
'Australia's system of privatised employment services is structurally broken and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms’. Check out ABC's coverage of our latest report (and, non-Aussies, find out what 'rorting' means). cictar.org/news/abc/job...
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ABC coverage of new CICTAR report on Australia’s outsourced jobseeker system — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Media coverage of CICTAR’s report on the Australia’s outsourcing of its jobseeker system
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Bratislava @nondescriptive.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨New @cictar.bsky.social report today on profit extraction in Australia's employment services system 🚨 "privatised employment services [system] is structurally broken, and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Private firms profit as Australia's job system fails workers, report finds
A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaires.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Great Coverage in Cymru (Wales) of our new report, developed with TUC Cymru and Unison Cymru. cictar.org/news/cymru-m... Not for profit provision of care places in Cymru has plummeted in the last five years while the only significant growth in places has come from private investment firms
Graph showing that not for profit provision of care places has plummeted in the last five years while the only significant growth in places has come from investment firms
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Extensive coverage in the Pakistan media of CICTAR's report on Pakistan's energy sector. Developed in partnership with public labour unions in Pakistan, Public Services International and FES. cictar.org/news/pakista...
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Pakistan Media Coverage of CICTAR report — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Pakistan media coverage of CICTAR’s Pakistan energy report
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If #nzpol wants to do a deeper dive, there is a detailed breakdown of the Ambulance funding emergency in our recent report on the topic (developed by the wonderful @cictar.bsky.social): cictar.org/all-research...
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‘Emergency’: CICTAR report on Saving New Zealand’s Ambulance Service — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Report arguing for an urgent shift to public ownership of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ambulance services
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"When you have such extremely poor distributions of wealth, you start to get quite bad social problems...we haven't reached this level of inequality before because it is so unhealthy on a societal level" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... CICTAR's Ed Miller quoted in RNZ piece on Elon Musk
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Elon Musk only marginally less wealthy than all New Zealanders combined
"When you have such extreme or maldistributions of wealth ... you start to get quite bad social problems."
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.mirror.co.uk/money/amazon... Great work from our comrades at Fair Tax Foundation. Backs up CICTAR's previous work: cictar.org/all-research... The ongoing lack of basic transparency measures calls into question the UK's commitment to tackling this type of abuse. @fairtaxfoundation.bsky.social
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Amazon accused of 'systematic tax avoidance' after release of UK accounts
Accounts for one of online giant Amazon's biggest UK companies show it paid no corporation tax last year despite profits jumping by a quarter
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Alliance Sud @alliancesud.ch · 05/06/2026
Hier finden Sie die Studie von @cictar.bsky.social www.alliancesud.ch/de/starbucks...
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“This has nothing to do with ethical coffee sourcing,”...It’s about profit maximization through a tax loophole.” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in a great new article in Republik on Starbuck's 'ethical sourcing' from investigative reporter Karin Wenger: cictar.org/news/republi...
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Republik: Starbuck’s Swiss tax trick — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Independent media outlet reports on Starbuck’s use of Switzerland to reduce its global tax bill. Including evidence from CICTAR.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
More coverage of CICTAR's latest report on the tax tricks played by some of Brazil's telecom giants: iclnoticias.com.br/economia/viv...
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Vivo, Claro e TIM dão calote de R$ 11 bi em SP e sufocam cofres públicos com manobras fiscais - ICL Notícias
As três maiores operadoras de telecomunicações do Brasil — TIM, Vivo e Claro — acumulam R$ 11,1 bilhões em dívidas ativas no estado de São Paulo, utilizando artifícios jurídicos agressivos para evitar...
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
'In Brazil, there is a culture of non-payment of this active debt, especially among large multinational companies...a loophole that is a cause of fiscal injustice in Brazil” Researcher Livi Gerbase quoted in the Brasil de Fato, piece on CICTAR's latest report. cictar.org/news/brasild...
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Brasil de Fato: Telecoms companies Vivo, Claro and Tim ‘accentuate Brazilian tax injustice’ — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Brasil de Fato: Telecoms companies Vivo, Claro and Tim ‘accentuate Brazilian tax injustice’
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
CICTAR's new report, in partnership with the tax inspectors union in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Three major telcoms companies have accumulated over R$ 11bn in 'tax debt' to the state government, while continuing to find other ways to reduce their tax bill. This is tax injustice! cictar.org/all-research...
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Tax Justice and Telecommunications Companies — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
The Case of Tax Debt in São Paulo and Brazil
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"the very rich should focus less on philanthropy and more on paying their fair share of taxes...zero tax paid in six out of the 11 years” CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in a Sydney Morning Herald profile of one of Australia's richest men (and an advert for wealth taxes) www.smh.com.au/national/he-...
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He keeps ex-PMs on retainer, parties with Trump and dines with King Charles: this is Anthony Pratt
He’s one of Australia’s richest men, but this cardboard billionaire lived in a roadside hotel for two years while building his father’s American dream.
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
CICTAR's Jason Ward said: "we’re losing significant tax revenue on our resources because of this transfer pricing situation... It’s within the same multinational structure. These are artificial structures.” ABC investigates Shell's use of Singapore as a tax haven cictar.org/news/abc/shell
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Australian Gas giants in the spotlight — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
ABC reporting on Shell’s use of Singapore as a tax haven
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Great work from our comrades at Taxwatch UK Revealing how power works and the role of Switzerland in the global commodity trading and tax dodging system. See also, CICTAR's work on Starbucks and Glencore!
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Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A must read. Covering a core problem in society. One that CICTAR (www.cictar.org) and our trade union allies have been attempting to unpick. Basic services being turned into ATM machines for the wealthy. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... @psiglobalunion.bsky.social @hettieobrien.bsky.social
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Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New blog on the 'Diálogos Do Sul' website, on Starbucks draining wealth from coffee producing countries and the need to tighten transfer pricing rules and demand transparency from multinationals that profit from Latin American coffee. Co-authored by CICTAR's Livi Gerbase: cictar.org/news/dialogo...
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Blog: CAFÉ COM VODKA (Coffee with Vodka) — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Diálogos do Sul blog on Starbucks
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
CICTAR's Jason Ward gives evidence to a 'fiery Senate inquiry' in Australia, debating export taxes on gas companies: cictar.org/news/newscom... Unsurprisingly, the big fossil fuel producers aren't keen.
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CICTAR’s Jason Ward gives evidence to Australia’s Senate inquiry on gas export tax — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Coverage of Senate Committee inquiry into gas export taxes involving CICTAR
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dutch pension fund disinvests from Palantir citing social responsibility concerns Workers concerned over surveillance practices @epsu.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social @purgepalantir.bsky.social
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Dutch pension fund divests from Palantir citing social responsibility - Business and Human Rights Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre
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