Comments on: Taxing times in Timor… and the Pacific? http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/ Thinking for ourselves Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Pacific Buzz (October 17): Australia ‘the Cayman Islands for PNG’ | Resource extraction and taxation | Pacific faces economic slowdown… and more | Development Policy Blog http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Pacific Buzz (October 17): Australia ‘the Cayman Islands for PNG’ | Resource extraction and taxation | Pacific faces economic slowdown… and more | Development Policy Blog Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:09:59 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-474 [...] documentary by the ABC on corporations evading tax in East Timor has illustrated the difficulties Pacific island countries face in getting a fair share of resource revenues. This is a problem throughout the region, with other [...]

]]> By: Pacific Buzz (December 19): 2012 in review | Development Policy Blog http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Pacific Buzz (December 19): 2012 in review | Development Policy Blog Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:01:52 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-211 [...] growth into substantial development gains. Timor Leste grappled with serious problems of tax evasion. Commentators in PNG spoke of a lost decade, and the head of the country’s anti corruption [...]

]]> By: PACIFIC BUZZ – A round up of the year’s top stories by PiPP and Devpolicy.org | Pacific Institute of Public Policy http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-208 PACIFIC BUZZ – A round up of the year’s top stories by PiPP and Devpolicy.org | Pacific Institute of Public Policy Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:35:17 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-208 [...] economic growth into substantial development gains. Timor Leste grappled with serious problems of tax evasion. Commentators in PNG spoke of a lost decade, and the head of the country’s anti corruption body [...]

]]> By: Sopa Caleb http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Sopa Caleb Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:13:03 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-95 That is a clear double standard by so called ‘Big Brother’ of the Pacific.

I strongly feel Pacific Island countries start giving less preference to mining and more in agriculture, marine, green-projects and people development. We are continuously dually in that our land is defaced by the mines and the miners get tax holidays and what have you. At the end of the day, I bet we get only one third and two thirds goes to the developer. It’s time to shift the economic-base from carbon base to agro-aqua base.

]]> By: Rather than giving aid why don’t foreign govts just make their mining companies pay their taxes…. | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Rather than giving aid why don’t foreign govts just make their mining companies pay their taxes…. | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:42:41 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-94 [...] view the source – http://www.pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/ Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterDiggLinkedInPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like [...]

]]> By: PiPP TV 2012-10-17 | Pacific Institute of Public Policy http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-91 PiPP TV 2012-10-17 | Pacific Institute of Public Policy Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:02:13 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-91 [...] The recent Four Corners documentary feature on East Timor’s efforts to recoup petroleum taxes and a leak from Papua New Guinea Mine Watch on how mining companies are avoiding tax in PNG demonstrate that for Melanesia the amounts international companies are not paying in tax might eclipse even the aid money they receive. Major countries, it appears, will not necessarily act in the interests of the Pacific if one of their own is avoiding tax. Ben Sims explains…. [...]

]]> By: PACIFIC BUZZ – a roundup of political and economic news by PiPP and DevPolicy.org | Pacific Institute of Public Policy http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2012/10/17/taxing-times-in-timor-and-the-pacific/comment-page-1/#comment-90 PACIFIC BUZZ – a roundup of political and economic news by PiPP and DevPolicy.org | Pacific Institute of Public Policy Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:01:20 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=1924#comment-90 [...] recent documentary by the ABC on corporations evading tax in East Timor has illustrated the difficulties Pacific island countries face in getting a fair share of resource revenues. This is a problem throughout the region, with other [...]

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