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EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says
@epsu.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social
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EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says - Law360 Tax Authority
The European Union should require large companies to submit country-by-country tax reports to authorities when bidding for public contracts, a tax transparency group and EU public-sector union said ah...
www.law360.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
Stay tuned. Tomorrow morning we publish @cictar.bsky.social report -addressing aggressive tax avoidance behaviour through EU Public procurement legislation

Examples of tech companies

No public funds to tax dodgers

@taxobservatory.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org
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January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
And the report of @cictar.bsky.social on using EU Procurement to address tax avoidance is out

Some companies including US Big tech try to win public contracts, loving workers' and people's tax money, but leaving us poorer by avoiding to pay fair share of taxes

EU's procurement rules can ...
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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.
www.epsu.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 AM
cictar.bsky.social
"federal government should subject those bidding for public contracts to higher levels of transparency"

Jason Ward, CICTAR:

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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on outsource call centre operator receiving large public contracts while paying no corporation tax
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January 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
cictar.bsky.social
Telco Services Australia, generated more than $185m in 2024-25 but reported no taxable income while having a $90m-plus govt contract.

Jason Ward (CICTAR) said the business appeared to be structured in ways “to have avoided reporting and tax obligations in Australia”.

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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on outsource call centre operator receiving large public contracts while paying no corporation tax
cictar.org
January 13, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
tuned here as we publish a @cictar.bsky.social briefing soon on how such companies could be forced to be more transparent when applying for public funds

EU commissioner @steph-sejourne.bsky.social will have a choice to deal with tax avoidance and contribute to fairness

@taxobservatory.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Union busting and tax dodging, both disgusting! @cictar.bsky.social
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Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Report reveals $1.3 billion Starbucks profit diverted to Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. 99% of all the corporation's coffee is transferred, on paper, through Switzerland, despite most of it ne...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
cictar.bsky.social
'this reform will be Lula's greatest legacy of fiscal justice in his three terms as president and will remove the country from the shameful list of countries that do not tax dividends.'

CICTAR's Livi Gerbase on Brazil's new tax reform here: cictar.org/news/brazilt...

@psiglobalunion.bsky.social
A Truly Progressive Tax Reform: Lula's Greatest Legacy for Fiscal Justice — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
CICTAR Researcher reflects on the new reform bill in Brazil, which includes taxation on Dividend payments, a reform previously highlighted by CICTAR’s research into links between company and family b...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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edasuaconta.bsky.social
3/ A escassez de água causada por mineradoras no Equador, com @ecuarauz.bsky.social; Incentivos fiscais para empresas privatizarem o saneamento, com Livi Gerbase do @cictar.bsky.social e benefícios fiscais para o agronegócio, que desmata o Cerrado, com @flavioguetto
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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jasonward-cictar.bsky.social
Trump’s protection racket for the world’s largest corporate tax dodgers continues, this makes the G7’s Pillar 2 exemptions for US MNCs even more absurd! @cictar.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
cictar.bsky.social
CICTAR's Jason Ward makes an appearance during ABC's Media Watch less than approving analysis of the 'Back Australia' campaign by major corporations (at 4.45).

www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
A photo of Jason Ward with a caption showing his comments that the corporations involved in the 'Back Australia' campaign should start with paying basic income tax to support public services
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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jasonward-cictar.bsky.social
Public country by country reporting, it's coming soon...
The world's best multinational tax transparency reporting requirement! (best for now...) @cictar.bsky.social
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Australia Issues Guidance On Public Country-By-Country Law - Law360 Tax Authority
Australia issued guidance Friday on how to comply with its public country-by-country reporting law, including filing instructions, formatting and the information required to be disclosed.
www.law360.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
cictar.bsky.social
“It’s a bit rich for the executives to get so much money when the company, which was initially a public enterprise … [doesn’t] contribute tax revenue from its profits back to its home country,”

CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in the Guardian, on CSL's tax payments cictar.org/news/guardia...
CSL and Optus pay millions to executives despite paying no company tax in Australia — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Jason Ward quoted in Guardian article on low tax payments by CSL
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October 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
cictar.bsky.social
'This is a phoney use of a non-profit status in order to create private wealth. It absolutely makes no sense'

CICTAR's Jason Ward talks to Australian National Broadcaster, ABC about the proposed tax games of private healthcare company Healthscope:

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Private Healthcare company Healthscope under fire over proposal to farm millions in employees' tax benefits — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
ABC report on tax shenanigans proposed by a private health company, owned by Canadian asset managers Brookfield, as it seeks to re-launch itself as a non-profit outfit.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
cictar.bsky.social
"If you had loved ones in an aged care home that was owned by men convicted of torturing more than a million chickens, you’d surely want to know"

CICTAR's Jason Ward explains why Australia's move to transparency on business ownership is a good thing: cictar.org/news/canberr...
Who owns that company? Find out in 2028 for just $207m — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Michael West media and the Canberra Times report on a new register of business ownership to be created by Australia
cictar.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
cictar.bsky.social
Another great podcast from Canadian podcaster Millennial Moron. This time with CICTAR's Jason Ward. Together they look at the private equity style behaviour of Canadian pension funds, and take a dive into the detail of the scandal surrounding the French care company ORPEA. cictar.org/news/podcast...
$500m CPP Scandal: A new Podcast with CICTAR Principal Analyst, Jason Ward — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Podcast featuring CICTAR Principal Analyst, Jason Ward
cictar.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
cictar.bsky.social
How much profit does Starbucks make in the US State of Oregon and how much does it pay in taxes to the state? We don’t know. Find out WHY we don't know in the new podcast from @ocppnews.bsky.social with CICTAR's Jason Ward:
cictar.org/news/podcast...
‘Policy For The People’ podcast: Jason Ward on Starbucks in Oregon. And how big corporations hide their profits — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Podcast featuring CICTAR researcher, Jason Ward
cictar.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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ocppnews.bsky.social
You may have heard of corporations using #OffshoreTaxHavens to avoid taxes, but what does that actually look like? The latest episode of Policy for the People breaks it down

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How big corporations hide their profits — and how to stop it - Oregon Center for Public Policy
I want to thank Jason Ward and Spandan Marasini for sharing their insights into how it is that big corporations hide their profits and what we can do to
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October 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
cictar.bsky.social
cictar.org/news/podcast...
Livi Gerbase from the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) joins Canadian podcaster extraordinaire ‘Millennial Moron’ to discuss ways that Brookfield and other Canadian pension fund managers are leveraging tax havens and tax-advantaged programs to privatize public utilities in Latin America. Using CICTAR’s case studies of Isagen in Colombia and BRK Ambiental in Brazil they discuss the decline in capital investment into infrastructure, increases in prices to consumers, stagnant wages for workers, and the massive increase in debt charges to these former public utilities - which are potentially being used as a profit-shifting scheme to avoid paying taxes to the local governments where these utilities are located. CICTAR highly recommends a full perusal of this illuminating youtube channel, described as ‘Canadian content for people who love to hate Canadian content’ and providing accessible, but detailed insight into themes linking closely with a lot of our work.
October 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
cictar.bsky.social
'The partial privatisation of our electricity system has prevented growth... A state of manufactured scarcity has delivered rising energy bills...and huge dividends to shareholders'

New paper from NZCTU, with CICTAR research support, on problems of energy privatization: cictar.org/news/nzctu/p...
New paper from New Zealand Council of Trade Unions/Te Kauae Kaimahi on public energy ownership (with research support from CICTAR) — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
A new paper from New Zealand Council of Trade unions calling for a return to public ownership for the electricity system
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October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
cictar.bsky.social
“Generally most Australian companies do the right thing...

Most of the abuse we see comes from the big multinationals, and big US multinationals in particular"

CICTAR's Jason Ward in the Guardian, commenting on the latest Aus Tax Office 'Corporate Transparency Report':

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Optus among companies earning billions in Australia but paying no income tax — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
The Guardian reports on the latest ATO data and apparent tax minimization by multinationals operating in Australia
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October 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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From Brazil, the Union of Water, Sewage, and Environmental Workers in the State of Bahia (SINDAE-Bahia) teamed up with @cictar.bsky.social to show how the privatization of their sewer systems are enriching a Canada-based private corporation, an "asset manager" called Brookfield.
Water down investment, top up returns - The pitfalls of financing Basic Sanitation in Brazil — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
The Brazilian people are subsidising the privatisation of water resources that, before Bolsonaro’s sanitation law, were publicly owned. Large companies are using loans that benefit from federal tax i...
cictar.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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📣 The price of going green: Tax gaps in the Energy Transition

What are the real fiscal costs of going green? This panel explores the real fiscal costs of the energy transition. #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
cictar.bsky.social
"The Canadian government must not bow to corporate pressure — or President Donald Trump — and instead ensure that profits earned in Canada are taxed in Canada"

CICTAR's Jason Ward on why Canada should follow Australia on tax transparency in Canada's National Observer: cictar.org/news/canadao...
‘Corporate Canada's deal making needs more sunlight’ — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Jason Ward calls for greater tax transparency in Canada’s National Observer
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September 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
cictar.bsky.social
The World Bank, and other development agencies are using 'development' finance to promote privatized healthcare. Bloomberg has uncovered clear evidence of the negative impacts on patients and workers. CICTAR, our comrades at KMPDU,PSI and many others demand change: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rights Groups Call for Probe of World Bank Hospital Funding
More than 50 human rights organizations, nonprofits and international development experts are calling on the World Bank to investigate its health-care investments in Africa and Asia, citing Bloomberg ...
www.bloomberg.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM