Jason Ward

The Bitter Taste of Tax Dodging: Starbucks’s “Swiss Swindle” Starbucks shifts significant coffee-trading profits to its Swiss subsidiary, exploiting low taxes and secrecy to avoid paying fair taxes in producer countries.

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Behind Starbucks’ “ethical sourcing” lies a global tax dodge shifting profits from coffee-producing countries to Switzerland. Customers pay an “ethical” premium while vital revenues for schools & hospitals are lost. - @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social👉 taxjustice.net/2026/02/17/t...

"Rather than expand fossil fuel subsidies, lawmakers should close offshore tax loopholes that reward overseas extraction, reform how foreign profits are taxed, and require greater tax transparency so that Americans can see where profits are earned and taxes are paid."

The Bitter Taste of Tax Dodging: Starbucks’ ‘Swiss Swindle’ - Tax Justice Network This report on Starbucks provides a great example of how the current global tax system is abused in order to shift profits from producer countries in the Global South to multinational corporations hea...

Starbucks runs a global tax dodge via Switzerland under cover of its 'ethical' sourcing scheme, dodgy!!!

Starbucks: Ethical Sourcing or Swiss Swindle? - IUF

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WATCH: 'Waters Edge' tax breaks would end if California bill passes Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original publication to add a video.

Thrilled to see SEIU driving this much needed and long overdue multinational tax reform in California!!! @cictar.bsky.social has been pushing this for years!

Companies’ Big Overseas Tax Bills Spur Profit-Shifting Concerns Some big US-based multinationals are paying more in taxes to other countries than to their own, fueling questions about whether companies are shifting profits abroad to cut their tax bills.

Jason Ward, principal analyst @cictar.bsky.social. “The new FASB data provides welcome and specific details to what we already knew in a broad sense. Most large US multinationals are huge global tax dodgers and major abusers of tax havens."

Starbucks compra café na Suíça e pode prejudicar Brasil, diz estudo Estudo internacional aponta que rede de cafeterias tem prática de registrar na Suíça as compras do grão, gerando lucros de 18%

"CICTAR recommends that tax authorities in countries where Starbucks operates support centers carefully analyze payments made between these units and the subsidiary in Switzerland." @cictar.bsky.social @coffeewatch.bsky.social
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As @steph-sejourne.bsky.social cobbled together a coalition of CEOs to support his Made in Europe label giving access to billions of public funding, we do not want that money to go to companies that swindle and undermine funding of public services

No public money to tax avoiders

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New CICTAR report shows Starbucks shifts global coffee profits to Switzerland via an 18% mark‑up, moving an estimated US$1.3B over a decade. Meanwhile, little support reaches farmers. A clear case of profit extraction from the Global South.

Mônica Bergamo: Starbucks concentra lucros na Suíça e repassa impostos para países produtores, diz relatório OUTRO LADO: Empresa diz cumprir integralmente as leis tributárias em todo o mundo

@cictar.bsky.social Starbucks report lands in Brazil's largest newspaper! Time for coffee-producing countries to tax the profits Starbucks shifts to Switzerland and to push for global tax reforms!!! (paywall & Portuguese warning)

The ‘Swiss Swindle’ — Does Starbucks short-change coffee-producing countries? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research While claiming 99% of its coffee beans are ‘ethically’ sourced, Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries and perpetuating poverty in farming commu...

Profit shifting from coffee-growing countries -under the guise of 'ethical' sourcing- leaves a bitter taste! This case study makes the case for global reforms & suggests coffee-producing nations must tax profits shifted to Switzerland now!
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Corporate Fair Share Taxes Can Help States Support Public Services Amid Federal Cuts State policymakers should raise revenue to counter the harm from new budget pressures. One good place to start is by making large corporations pay their fair share.

State policymakers should raise revenue to counter cuts to federal funding enacted in the harmful 2025 Republican megabill. One good place to start: making large corporations pay their fair share. www.cbpp.org/blog/corpora...

Jim Chalmers: No tax, no contract This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay

This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay getup.to/2ndvZfMC8Y8iQ
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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.

Check this report on the subject: www.epsu.org/article/new-...

Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself Neither Recoveriescorp nor its parent entity has paid the tax since securing multi-million dollar government contracts

Seriously! Time for govt's to stop outsourcing, especially to tax dodging corporations, particularly private equity owned or multinationals... @cictar.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social @cpsu.org.au

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...

EU Should Use Tax Transparency For Public Bids, Report Says
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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.

Public contracts shouldn’t reward aggressive tax avoidance.

As governments spend more on outsourcing, cloud and AI, EU #procurement rules must require #tax transparency from major bidders - and exclude those who won’t provide it.

Read the new report 👉 www.epsu.org/article/new-...

Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years Telco Services Australia generated more than $185m in revenue in 2024-25 and $130m the year before but paid zero tax

"Jason Ward, ...[@cictar.bsky.social] said the business appeared to be structured in ways “to have avoided reporting and tax obligations in Australia”. He said the federal gov't should subject those bidding for public contracts to higher levels of transparency."
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FACT submitted comments ahead of today's House hearing on the U.S. international corporate tax system.

As the administration pursues tariffs in the name of repatriating American jobs, our tax code actively rewards offshoring.

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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...

Union busting and tax dodging, both disgusting! @cictar.bsky.social
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Govt shields $800m aged care tech work from scrutiny The Aged Care minister has defied a Senate order to detail the procurement and roll out of $800 million of upgrades to government aged care technology systems that were outsourced to global software a...

There was a "heavy reliance on Accenture, which has been involved in several previous Canberra tech wrecks" and has a local and global track record of major tax dodging! @cictar.bsky.social www.innovationaus.com/govt-shields...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

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
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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.

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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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.

'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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Billionaire Hands off Public Policy! Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/ABPAKt22oClX...

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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

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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