ICTD Research Associate Rasmus Corlin Christensen was interviewed by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s TV news programme “Deadline” about how the Covid-19 crisis amplifies issues of globalisation, including tax havens. He spoke about recent controversies over tax havens and flags of convenience used in the shipping industry, and how the pandemic is underscoring their negative impacts. Watch the segment in Danish here (starting around 21:15).
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen interviewed on Danish television
Frederik Heitmüller shares insights on UN Tax Convention negotiations with Tax Notes
ICTD Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller was interviewed by Tax Notes on the progress of the negotiations for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (see our work on the Framework Convention here).
Reflecting on the last round of discussions in Nairobi, Heitmüller told Tax Notes that “countries are still debating how the framework convention will work in practice, how binding the agreement will be, and how it will relate to the protocols, which overlap with some aspects of the convention.”
Read the full article here.
ICTD brief on UN tax negotiations cited in Tax Notes report
Following the first round of substance negotiations for a new UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention), Tax Notes featured extensively ICTD Policy Brief 19, on the trade-offs surrounding Protocol 1.
The article also quoted ICTD Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller, who attended the first week of the sessions earlier this month, saying in part: “Delegates were still divided on the scope of the protocol and which services would be covered.”
Read the full article here and more about our work on the UN Tax Convention here.
Martin Hearson weighs in on 15% global tax deal in The Conversation Weekly podcast
ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson, who also leads the Centre’s International Tax programme, was interviewed in a recent episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast about the October 2021 global tax deal that requires large multinational companies to pay at least 15% in corporate tax.