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ICIJ reports that the series of stories has sparked "official investigations, sweeping policy changes and high-profile resignations" around the world, with the European Union's top tax official calling Offshore Leaks “the most significant trigger” behind Europe's new push to crack down on offshore hideaways and global tax dodging. [7] “We ...
The PwC tax scandal was a scandal involving PwC's abuse of Australian Government secrets to enrich itself and its corporate clients. PwC, and other Big Four accounting firms , give advice to governments on writing tax law, and also corporations seeking to avoid those laws.
outlined issues in the application that included government spending, government debt, or taxes; involved advocating or lobbying to "make America a better place to live"; had statements in the case file that criticized how the country is being run; advocated education about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights;
Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for investigating potential criminal violations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes, such as money laundering, currency transaction violations, tax-related identity theft fraud and terrorist financing that adversely affect tax administration.
Indian government ordered an inquiry, and subsequently announced that it was constituting a special multi-agency group comprising officers from the investigative unit of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and its Foreign Tax and Tax Research Division, the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Reserve Bank of India. [52]
McDonald's didn't wait for the investigations' conclusions and announces in December 2016 the moving of its tax branch from Luxembourg to the United Kingdom. [27] Investigations are also now opened against Amazon in 2014, [28] against GDF-Suez (now Engie) in 2016 [29] and against Ikea in 2017 [30] for their tax schemes in Luxembourg.
2012 Stratfor email leak: Public disclosure of a number of internal emails between global intelligence company Stratfor's employees and its clients. Unaoil Leak: A leaked cache of emails dating from 2001 to 2012 sent within Unaoil revealed that Unaoil's operatives bribed officials in oil-producing nations in order to win government-funded projects.
As of May 19, 2021, the DoD was the only government agency to have failed every audit since all government agencies were required to pass such audits by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. [1] [2] Two examples of major GAO investigations in the 2000s were the audits of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Defense Department airline reimbursements.