Hope we're all looking forward to the actual home Grand Prix for most of the current drivers 🙄 #F1 #TaxHavens #SpreadTheWealth #MonacoGP
#taxHavens
” Även den obebodda pingvinön Heard and McDonald utanför Australien beläggs med tullar. ”
Man kan skratta åt detta men för att undvika kryphål är det helt rätt tänkt.
Synd bara att det inte var skatteflykt det handlade om.
The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/donald-trump-us-corruption-kleptocracy-britain-corruption-law-oligarchs #USforeignpolicy #Foreignpolicy #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Politics #Business #UKnews #USnews
Warning this is maddening, especially given that the top 1% are responsible for most of the #climatechange. They have the money to pay for it too, estimated 700 billion left untaxed every year "Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, on how and where the mega-rich stash their cash"
The Pret Foundation Trust
Anytime it comes to money grabs, certain buzz words are used to fool people out of their hard-earned money, while a handful of people are at executive levels in those charities making a sh!tload of money. In 2023 a regular charity fundraiser (begging for money all day) working only 3 days a week makes between £30,000 – £33K a year, while the charity work is mainly done by unpaid volunteers under the “giving back to the community” or the volunteer “opportunity” sweet-talk. What opportunity? Working for free? It has become normalised to have free and cheap labour.
I have worked part-time in a non-profit and volunteered for many years after work in charities. I don’t do unpaid work anymore.
“Charity” (love).
“Trust / Trusts” etc.
Charity these days is big business. And trusts are a “slippery, very complicated and devious mechanism” as explained in the brilliant documentary “The Real Story behind Britain’s Offshore Tax Scandals“. I highly recommend watching this documentary.
I wrote an “open letter” to the Pret Foundation Trust a few years ago after I saw one of Pret’s typical PR stunts, using a vulnerable person who is a member of a mental health club in Brixton.
When I became bereaved and Pret not wasting any time to try and get rid of me (please see links at the very bottom), I and later even an OPs (area) manager asked Pret to place me under someone from the Pret Foundation Trust. I have that request in writing.
Pret never responded.
So far to helping vulnerable people in/into work. Charity, trusts for tax breaks and brownie points with the public while trying to get rid of long-time staff.
It’s also noticeable that where the Pret Foundation has accounts on social media, the engagement is very low. Very few followers, not much engagement. And the engagement as in “likes” and comments that happen, especially on Facebook, comes from current and former Pret HQ staff, because I know many of them and their roles.
Not long ago I wrote a post regarding wage theft and pay delays in Pret under the “payroll error” excuse. I also listed other issues where Pret skim customers and staff alike, like since the pandemic placing donation devices directly next to payment devices whee customers in the rush and noise accidentally donate £5 tapping the wrong device.
Pret also stated to place tip devices claiming that 100% of the tips go to staff. Sorry, but Pret never allowed us to get tips and in the USA stores Pret changed the tip boxes to charity boxes after 2008.
I visited NYC in 2008 and 2013. In 2008 Pret stores still had tip boxes. In 2013 the boxes were changed to charity boxes.
My list of how Pret take from customers and staff, incl. allegedly deleting bonuses and cash rewards from mystery shoppers to staff: “Theft and Lies at Pret“.
Bur regarding trusts and tax havens, the German program Panorama did a short report in 2019 about the secretive Reimann family, Germany’s 2. richest family who via JAB Holdings run Pret and other companies in tax haven Luxembourg.
JAB have also entered the pet insurance market and are aggressively buying out veterinarian practices t the detriment of pet safety and pet owners finances.
The good news is that US Senator Elizabeth Warren is coming after JAB.
Here the excellent short German report about the Reimann Family / JAB Holdings and tax haven Luxembourg on YouTube (English translation below):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8stElNK4Pyo
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In case the video gets deleted off YouTube, the link to the German mediathek report of the ARD.
I did an English AI translation to audio:
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And a text transcript into English of the German report which can be found as PDF file here.
If you understand German and watch the above report or listen to / read the English translation, the millions of pounds bonus scheme for CEOs, while taking from employees makes sense from THEIR perspective. It’s an internal investment and the report explains very well how this works.
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And speaking of Clive Schlee, he has been made CEO again after having “retired” from Pret in 2019. But this time in itsu starting in November 2024. Schlee owns half of itsu anyway. Clive Schlee now CEO of itsu.
Support small local independent businesses, and where-ever you work, join a union.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN_zq5YFeAQ&list=PLAlnT8XcpopZh1CDoZPM3h3-l_9v9unFS&index=3
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I worked at Pret A Manger and survived systemic workplace bullying during bereavement that involved HR, the top leadership, HQ and even the now “retired” former CEO Clive Schlee. Schlee has been appointed CEO of itsu in 2024 by Julian Metcalfe who gave him the CEO spot at Pret many years ago.
I declined 4 settlement offers if I am silent about my ordeal. But I rather speak out to help others. For an overview of important blog entries of my experience with Pret, please visit “My Ordeal with Pret A Manger”. The little arrow to the right next to each heading will lead directly to the post.
An incomplete list on what other Pret staff say about Pret’s bullying environment: Caught in the Act Bullying at Pret and What shop MANAGERS & HQ staff say about Pret incl. CEO Pano Christou.
I tell my story for the first time verbally in below audio player interview on a podcast by The Adam Paradox, and wrote two articles in the Scottish Left Review as well as mentioned by the BBC.
Please also see the MEDIA page for more on my work with the press.
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#charities #charity #Community #corruption #featured #health #luxembourg #moneyGrabs #news #PretFoundationTrust #taxHavens #trust #trusts
"Freeports are both a massive folly, and a deeply misguided and even dangerous attempt to recreate offshore tax environments within the UK."
#UKpolitics #Freeports #TaxAvoidance #TaxHavens
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/26/freeports-should-be-abolished/
UK “Labour” Party got a £4million donation from a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands, OpenDemocracy reveals.
Let’s hope this telling bit of campaign finance doesn’t get buried under the Starmer dresses, tickets and freebies scandal.
Labour given ÂŁ4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms
Quadrature’s donation is noteworthy not just for being Labour’s largest-ever, but for its timing ahead of election
The #Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in #FossilFuels, private health firms, #arms manufacturers and asset managers.
Secondly, any form of supplying public infrastructure through "public private partnerships" or equivalent scams – introduced by #Conservatives under John Major, popularised by #Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and slavishly followed by the #SNP in years since – is equally a deliberate policy choice to transfer wealth from citizens to investors – and usually an effective choice to transfer wealth from your own economy to #TaxHavens
Trillions of dollars of fossil fuel finance routed via tax havens, study says #fossilfuels #taxhavens #banks https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trillions-dollars-fossil-fuel-finance-routed-via-tax-havens-study-says-2024-09-11/
A priori plutĂ´t #OCDE vs #ResteDuMonde
"For decades, the #OECD has dominated international #tax policy. But in recent years criticism over the outsized power wielded by wealthy countries in its closed-door decision-making has grown, including at the top levels of the U.N."
“ #TaxHavens and corporate #lobbyists have had too much influence on global #taxPolicy at the OECD for too long,”
Le Costa Rica, membre OCDE, par ex s'Ă©tait abstenu en 2023.
#TaxHavens:
Margaret Hodge, former Labour MP and a prominent critic of illicit finance, criticized the U.K. for its lack of action. The BVI “is supporting evil across the world. It’s a security issue, it’s not just a financial issue. If we’re supporting kleptocrats, facilitating drug money, we’re supporting instability around the world,” she said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/virgin-islands-andrew-fahie-corruption-britain-tries-to-clean-up-its-dirtiest-secret/
4/ #Pharmariesen haben > 1.300 #Tochtergesellschaften in #Niedrigsteuergebieten.
#Patient*innen müssen wg. hoher #Arzneimittelpreise gefährl. lang warten
#DeadlyPrices
#Pharmafirms stash profits in Europe's #taxhavens as patients struggle with #drugprices
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-pharma-firms-stash-profits-in-europes-tax-havens-as-patients-struggle-with-drug-prices
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers #Globaldevelopment #Thesuper-rich #Climatecrisis #Taxavoidance #SouthAfrica #Environment #Inequality #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Business #Germany #Brazil #Spain #G20
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers #Globaldevelopment #Thesuper-rich #Climatecrisis #Taxavoidance #SouthAfrica #Environment #Inequality #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Business #Germany #Brazil #Spain #G20
Panama Papers: trial begins of 27 Mossack Fonseca employees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/09/panama-papers-trial-begins-of-27-mossack-fonseca-employees #PanamaPapers #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Panama
Panama Papers: trial begins of 27 Mossack Fonseca employees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/09/panama-papers-trial-begins-of-27-mossack-fonseca-employees #PanamaPapers #Taxhavens #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Panama
Twenty-seven people are set to go on trial on Monday for money laundering in connection with the "Panama Papers" tax evasion scandal, which revealed how many of the world's wealthy stashed assets in offshore companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/08/world/crime-legal/panama-papers-trial-tax-scandal/ #worldnews #crimelegal #panamapapers #panama #taxhavens #taxes #businessethics
Ready to dive into the intricate world of corporate ownership and tax havens? Check out our latest blog post, 'Unraveling the Opacity' for a revealing look at how it all connects.
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/taxhavensbenefi/
#corporateownership #taxhavens #transparency
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
https://taxjustice.net/2018/11/30/the-spiders-web-documentary-viewed-over-one-million-times-on-youtube/
#economy #finance #taxhavens #offshore #documentary
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