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CICTAR Blog on Palantir’s latest quarterly results

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.

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...

A new CICTAR-EPSU report finds a USD 14 million tax gap as Palantir books European profits in the US.

With a UN Tax Convention in sight, the world now faces a decision that could fundamentally reshape corporate taxation. This study, co-published with Public Services International, shows the revenue ga...

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.

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...

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.

The infamous surveillance company paid $22.7 million in global corporate taxes while raking in $1.6 billion in profits.

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.

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.

Al Jazeera and other media coverage of Palantir report

‘Rort report’ podcast

We contacted Glencore to respond to our allegations. You can read their response here.

A new report says Palantir pays little tax in Europe despite major public contracts, as profits are shifted to the US.

Who pays for the surveillance state?

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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...

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...

Podcast sobre como consertar a economia para que ela funcione para todas as pessoas e o planeta.

Ed Miller examines the financial case for a DP World led consortium takeover of Lyttelton Port

Media coverage of CICTAR’s report on the Australia’s outsourcing of its jobseeker system

A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaires.

Pakistan media coverage of CICTAR’s Pakistan energy report

Report arguing for an urgent shift to public ownership of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ambulance services

"When you have such extreme or maldistributions of wealth ... you start to get quite bad social problems."

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

Independent media outlet reports on Starbuck’s use of Switzerland to reduce its global tax bill. Including evidence from CICTAR.

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...

Brasil de Fato: Telecoms companies Vivo, Claro and Tim ‘accentuate Brazilian tax injustice’

The Case of Tax Debt in São Paulo and Brazil

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.

ABC reporting on Shell’s use of Singapore as a tax haven