George Turner ■ Conference Alert! International Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Tax Justice

Conference Alert! International Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Tax Justice

George Turner

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23 July 2014

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Please see the details for an exciting conference being hosted by the University of Barcelona. For those interested in attending please contact the organisers directly using the details at the bottom of this page.

INTERNATIONAL TAX AVOIDANCE, TAX EVASION, AND TAX JUSTICE

2 Oct. 2014 (14.00-19.15) – 3 Oct. 2014 (9.00-20.00)

Facultat de Dret/Faculty of Law, Av. Diagonal 684, 08034 Barcelona

Programme & registration

Topics & Speakers/Temas y Ponentes:

Evaluation of the OECD BEPS project (Sol Picciotto and others)

Taxation of the digitalized economy (Tulio Rosembuj)

Effects of the offshore system (Jim Stewart, John Christensen, Nick Shaxson)

How misaligned are profits with economic activity? (Alex Cobham)

Global Tax Battles (Len Seabrook & Duncan Wigan)

Towards unitary taxation (Michael Durst & Sol Picciotto)

Lessons from US states for unitary taxation (Erika Siu)

Evaluation of progress towards comprehensive & automatic information exchange (Andres Knobel, Markus Meinzer)

Can transparency help defeat capital flight and corruption? (Rodolfo Bejarano, Savior Mwambwa),

Taxation and inequality (Franco Gallo)

Tax and human rights (Giuseppe Melis)

A full programme can be viewed here

Conference Arrangements/Organización de la Conferencia

Conference arrangements including a registration proforma and payment details are here. Note that you are required to show proof of purchase when you return your registration form to the team at Barcelona Univeristy.

If you have queries about your registration please contact Montse at TULIO RAUL ROSEMBUJ ERUJIMOVICH [email protected]

The author

George Turner

George Turner was a writer and researcher with the Tax Justice Network until June 2018. He worked on a number of TJN projects including a review of the UK’s Tax Department HMRC, jointly published with the union PCS, and he was lead author on the Offshore Game, a study into the use of offshore finance by UK football clubs. George is also a non-executive director of Tax Justice UK and of Finance Uncovered, a TJN project that he helped set up. George was formerly Head of Office for the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK.

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