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Tax optimisation at the expense of the poorest

The agribusiness group Socfin shifts profits from commodity production to the low-tax canton of Fribourg. This tax avoidance goes hand in hand with profit maximisation at the expense of the population in the affected regions in Africa and Asia.

Political article

Tax flight kills mothers

Fiscal policy is a matter for a few – generally male – insiders divorced from reality. But it turns out, particularly from a gender equity standpoint, that tax policy entails negotiating the most elementary things in life.

Political article

Does Tax Proposal 17 spell blacklist?

Switzerland is not on the EU's new blacklist of tax havens around the world. Research by Oxfam International and the Tax Justice Network nonetheless shows that this speaks not in favour of Switzerland, but against the EU.

Article as analysis

Exchange of information: Automatically selective

The Swiss Government wants to extend automatic exchange of financial account information on potential tax dodgers selectively to some advanced developing countries. And to G20 members China and Russia. Stormy parliamentary debates lie ahead.