{"id":4602,"date":"2016-06-21T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/adgerdir-gegn-skattaundanskotum-opinn-fundur-med-torsten-fensby-2\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:42:02","slug":"adgerdir-gegn-skattaundanskotum-opinn-fundur-med-torsten-fensby","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/adgerdir-gegn-skattaundanskotum-opinn-fundur-med-torsten-fensby\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Tax Evasion: Open seminar with Torsten Fensby &#8211; Livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fighting Tax Evasion: Open seminar with Torsten Fensby<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Tuesday June 28 from 10:00 to 12:00 at the Nordic house<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open seminar hosted by The Nordic Region Focus in Iceland, The Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and Kjarninn.<\/p>\n<p>Livestream:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"ls_embed_1466523795\" data-src=\"\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/5652198\/player?width=560&amp;height=315&amp;autoPlay=true&amp;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" data-embed_id=\"ls_embed_1466523795\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In this open seminar <strong>Torsten Fensby<\/strong>, a specialist on tax issues, appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, will discuss his fight against tax evasions in light of the revelations made by the recently leaked Panama Papers.<\/p>\n<p>Fensby has throughout the years been a vocal advocate against tax evasion and was the team leader of a newly finished joint Nordic project on information-exchange agreements on tax matters with offshore financial centres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel discussions:<\/strong><br \/>\nBrynd\u00eds Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Director of Tax Investigations<br \/>\nBrynjar N\u00edelsson, Member of Althingi and 1st Deputy Chairman of the Economic Affairs and Trade Committee<br \/>\nIndri\u00f0i H. \u00deorl\u00e1ksson, former Director of Internal Revenue<br \/>\n<strong>Moderator: \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ur Sn\u00e6r J\u00fal\u00edusson, Editor at Kjarninn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seminar will take place in English and is open to all<\/p>\n<p>Further information:<a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is and www.ams.hi.is\" target=\"_blank\"> www.nordichouse.is and www.ams.hi.is <\/a><br \/>\nThe Institute of International Affairs on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/althjodamalastofnun\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/althjodamalastofnun <\/a><br \/>\nThe Nordic Region in Focus on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nordurlondifokus\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/Nordurlondifokus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting Tax Evasion: Open seminar with Torsten Fensby Tuesday June 28 from 10:00 to 12:00 at the Nordic house Open seminar hosted by The Nordic Region Focus in Iceland, The Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and Kjarninn. Livestream: &nbsp; In this open seminar Torsten Fensby, a specialist on tax issues, appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4600,"template":"","event-categories":[7,92],"class_list":["post-4602","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","event-categories-livestream-en","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}