Tax Justice Advocacy: A Toolkit for Civil Society

The purpose of this toolkit is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations to: understand and analyse the issues surrounding tax in a given country, develop advocacy strategies for tax justice, do tax research, plan and undertake different advocacy activities (for example lobbying, campaigning and media work) and learn from the experience of others already doing tax advocacy. More info on Tax Justice SOMO.

Affordable medication leaves biggest Dutch insurers cold

Aegon and Allianz have invested a total of no less than 11 billion euros in 19 pharmaceutical companies in 2019 without encouraging them to reduce high drug prices. These insurers also lack the commitment to…

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Long read / April 23, 2019

Shell’s tax privileges: Dutch treasury missed out on an additional €893 million in 2018

Dutch treasury missed out on an additional €893 million

News / October 18, 2018

First-ever OECD complaint on tax avoidance filed against Chevron’s shell companies

In a ground-breaking development, the first ever OECD Guidelines case on corporate tax avoidance was filed against the Dutch shell companies of American oil giant Chevron. The complaint highlights Chevron’s use of Dutch letterbox companies…

News / October 8, 2018

Repeal of Dutch dividend tax off the table

SOMO welcomes the news that the Dutch government will develop new plans for the dividend tax. Although Prime Minister Rutte has so far only referred to a “re-evaluation”, it now appears very unlikely that the…

News / September 11, 2018

Wednesday 12 September: Documentary Eldorado in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam

A feature documentary about environmental destruction and human rights abuses at Europe’s largest mining project. ‘ELDORADO — The Struggle For Skouries‘ is a documentary film about the civic struggle against destructive resource extractionism at Europe’s…

News / September 10, 2018

SOMO’s FOI request uncovers years of lobbying against dividend tax

SOMO has conducted extensive research on the lobby against the dividend tax in order to uncover how the decision to abolish the tax came about. Last year in November we published documents (obtained in 2016…

News / September 7, 2018

New publication examines all sides of the dividend tax issue

The Dutch government is planning to abolish the dividend tax. This measure is controversial, because it is not clear how the loss in tax revenues of at least 1.4 billion euros per year will benefit…

Opinion / August 29, 2018

Perseverance pays: how Dutch PM Rutte gave in after years-long lobbying by corporate interests

Jasper van Teeffelen

News / July 26, 2018

Intense lobbying of Dutch Cabinet by corporate interests

Recent events surrounding the Dutch dividend tax have made it abundantly clear: with strong enough lobbying, you can eliminate taxes totalling 1.4 billion euros. Therefore, for LobbywatchNL -a Dutch consortium to make lobbying more transparent…

News / June 16, 2018

Tax avoidance or state aid?

How the Dutch tax authority gave Shell’s foreign shareholders a gift of more than 7 billion euros. If the recent upheaval about the dividend tax in the Netherlands has taught us anything, it’s that Royal…

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