An international Search network has information the law firm Mossack Fonseca evaluated that were leaked by a whistleblower the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. The result is the revelation of hundreds of thousands of shell companies, which handle politicians and celebrities around the world manage their financial affairs. . Follow the latest developments in the news ticker
call for sharper action against letterbox companies louder
13:49: Following the release of “Panama papers” asks Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in the fight against tax evasion “world total transparency” in shell companies. “Next week I will make concrete proposals on how we can combat the abuse of letterbox companies”, the CDU politician wrote in a commentary for the “Bild am Sonntag”.
Skeptical showed Green Party leader Anton Hofreiter. “So far, Wolfgang Schäuble has little cause for optimism commanded that those claims followed up with deeds,” he said in Berlin. “I expect in a scandal of this magnitude by Finance straightforwardness and no wavering course.” His party will measure the proposals next week on its rapid implementation.
SPD Vice Ralf Stegner said the “Saarbrücker Zeitung”, it must now “an intense “enter debate on the taxation of wealth and inheritance. The head of the SPD employee organization, Klaus Barthel, the newspaper said: “Given the news from Panama our demands for a fairer taxation of high capacity can not be so easily vilified now.”
The German Finance Ministry protested on weekend against accusations of allegedly dubious transactions Bundesdruckerei in Venezuela. After “mirror” information the public company should have used a front company in Panama for these transactions, the name next to the Bundesdruckerei in the “Panama-papers” emerging. The allegations would be examined closely, said a spokesman of the Ministry
G20 explore further action against tax havens from
13.00:. After the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of anonymous shell companies in Panama explore further steps against tax havens from the leading industrial and emerging countries (G20). The G20 finance ministers will discuss on the edge of the IMF’s spring meeting this week in Washington on ways to increase transparency.
The G20 and the industrialized countries organization OECD had already on a package of measures against tax tricks large corporations (BEPS- action plan) agreed. For the 15-point plan includes “disclosure rules on aggressive tax planning” that are to be developed. States would therefore ask taxpayers to disclose aggressive tax planning
Red Cross to camouflage shell companies abused
Sunday, 10 April 11.30. In the affair to the “Panama papers” to the firm Mossack Fonseca have abused the reputation of charities in order to conceal the true owners of shell companies. According to information from the ARD and the Swiss “Sonntagszeitung” founded the firm at least two separate foundations that support the bill, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – without the aid agency was informed
According to the reports. acted the foundations “Faith Foundation” and “Brotherhood Foundation” as a sham owners of hundreds of shell companies. About the foundations turn possessed in reality customers Mossak Fonseca. As beneficiaries of the foundations put the firm an International Committee of the Red Cross. She used this loophole in company law of Panama, after which beneficiaries of foundations may be used without their knowledge.
In the “Panama Papers” found, according to the search tips on other organizations, abused their reputation in a similar manner might have been. So dive into the documents and the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and in one case, the UN Children’s Fund Unicef on
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