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NGO Seeks Exclusion of Tax "Avoiders" from Public Procurement
April 16, 2018
Paul Monaghan of the nongovernmental organization Fair Tax Mark reviews efforts across Europe toward excluding corporations that allegedly engage in "aggressive" tax avoidance from public procurement contracts and calls for the UK to pursue stronger measures to avoid forming procurement contracts with such companies.
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India Initiates Legal Action on CSR Spending
April 16, 2018
According to a report by Dhana Kumar, the Indian government is pursuing penalties against nearly 200 corporations for their failure to abide by a law requiring them to spend part of their average net profit on activities related to corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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NGO Rates Corporate Embrace of "Sustainability" Agenda
April 16, 2018
Environmental activist organization Ceres has published a report on its Roadmap for Sustainability assessing how over 600 US companies are positioned in achieving a set of global standards requiring the embrace of environmental and human rights goals in their operations and supply chains.
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NGO Seeks EU Sanctions for Corporate Tax Avoidance
April 13, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has called on EU institutions to "tackle" alleged tax havens within the bloc and create effective sanctions for external jurisdictions that it says are "fueling poverty and inequality" by failing to effectively tax corporations.
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NGO Praises EU's Global Pressure on Tax Policies
April 12, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has applauded the European Council for publishing commitments of blacklisted "tax havens" to improve their allegedly unfair tax systems in response to EU demands for these countries to align their tax policies with European corporate and individual tax standards.
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