Films play an important part in shaping new understandings about the structural causes of poverty and inequality. In 2007 we participated in the making of The End Of Poverty?, which has enjoyed huge critical success and has been watched by millions of people around the world. The makers of The … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Season’s Greetings from TJN
Developing countries and corporate tax – ten ways forward
Our last main blog before Christmas concerns developing countries. We are proud to publish an article by Krishen Mehta, one of our Senior Advisers, entitled The OECD's BEPS Process and Developing Countries - a way forward. This blog summarises the article, which is about how developing countries … [Read more...]
Links Dec 19
Capital flight: CEFID-AR publishes "The enablers and their ways of working" via Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe (In Spanish) Hat tip: Jorge Gaggero Editorial: Stem Capital Flight The Himalayan Times Widening of EU tax probe takes heat off Ireland Irish Examiner … [Read more...]
Links Dec 18
EU cracks down on anonymous company ownership, but falls short of full transparency Global Witness UK: Criminal penalty omitted from tax evasion clampdown Financial Times (paywall) Canada: New anti-corruption measure for oil, gas and mining companies passes into law amidst cautions from civil … [Read more...]
Mafia, #LuxLeaks and more scandal in the Tax Justice Network December podcast
In the December 2014 Taxcast: how Mafia is corrupting democracy at the heart of Europe in Italy's capital city of Rome. Also: the #LuxLeaks whistleblower is arrested and makes his first public statements on why he did it, the UK Chancellor's new 'Google Tax', is the EU Commission President Jean … [Read more...]
Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights: International Strategy Meeting, April 2015
Mark your calendar for a groundbreaking International Strategy Meeting Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights Co-organized by the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, LatinDADD, Oxfam, Red de Justicia Fiscal en América Latina y el Caribe and Tax Justice … [Read more...]
Eurodad: financial outflows from developing countries more than double the inflows
From Eurodad: The State of Finance for Developing Countries, 2014 This report provides the most comprehensive review of the quantity of different financing sources available to developing countries, and how they have changed over the past decade. … [Read more...]
On the Capture of Luxembourg by Big Accountancy Firms
UPDATE: TJN is among a host of signatories to a letter (published here) calling on the Luxembourg authorities to refrain from prosecuting whistleblower Antoine Deltour. In the letter we note that even the Luxembourg government has publicly recognised that the information revealed by M Deltour has … [Read more...]
TJN makes Global Top 50 – again!
Every picture tells a story, and this picture reflects the fact that TJN remains an agenda setter at national, regional and global levels. … [Read more...]
Links Dec 17
The unlearned lesson of LuxLeaks EU Observer #Luxleaks: The Reality of Tax ‘Competition’ Center for Global Development See also recent blog On so-called “tax competition” States keen to protect identity of Europe's shadow rich EU Observer See also earlier blog EU compromise on shell company … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #44
Shoot the Messenger Last week banks and accountants reacted to unwelcome revelations over their tax advice by attacking the messenger. Court appearances of two whistleblowers who revealed the scale of tax avoidance by international financial institutions went a long way to proving the adage: … [Read more...]
EU compromise on shell company regulation is improvement but falls short
From the Financial Transparency Coalition, of which TJN is a member: EU compromise tightens regulation on shell companies, but without public access, many still in the dark EU nations agree to national registers of company ownership information, but deal on 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive … [Read more...]
Politicians should wear their sponsors on their clothes, like race car drivers
Bogus US shell cos, inc. “Are you hiding from the law?” she chuckled
We recently pointed to a fascinating article by U.S. journalist Ken Silverstein about Mossack Fonseca, a particularly troubling ask-no-questions offshore incorporations firm based in Panama, with offices in many of our favourite offshore jurisdictions: the Bahamas, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Switzerland, … [Read more...]
