More precisely, what is known as an Early Day Motion, so far signed by 20 UK MPs: "That this House notes the recent screening of From Russia with Cash on Channel 4; expresses its concern that the proceeds of corruption are being laundered through the London property market via the use of … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
Did NGOs invent a pot of gold? (No.)
By Alex Cobham, our research director: first posted at Uncounted. A draft paper by Maya Forstater, circulated by the Center for Global Development in time for the Financing for Development conference in Addis, attacks the integrity of many people and NGOs working on tax justice and illicit … [Read more...]
Call for papers on Gender, Development, and Fiscal/Economic Equality
FemLaw [a collaborative research network of the Law and Society Association (LSA)] is seeking expressions of interest in presenting papers in its program at two interdisciplinary international conferences being sponsored by the Law and Society Association: the New Orleans LSA conference (June 2-5, … [Read more...]
Should Nation States Compete? – download the workshop presentations here
TJN recently held its annual research workshop in conjunction with the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs and City University at City University London. You can download the presentations given at that workshop from the links below. Matthew Watson – ‘Following in John Methuen’s … [Read more...]
Links Jul 10
Addis #FFD: An intergovernmental tax body? Uncounted Financing development: Tax them and they will grow The Economist "Poor countries need to get better at raising tax, and multinational firms need to get better at paying it" Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries - Policy Briefing … [Read more...]
Links Jul 9
Tax Inspectors Shrug Off Borders to Track Multinational Evasion Bloomberg Cites TJN Director John Christensen Could tax breaks be on the agenda for big oil companies? World Finance Cites TJN's Nicholas Shaxson 'Corporate tax deals are robbing poor countries of teachers and nurses' The … [Read more...]
Quote of the day: City of London and the drugs trade
Fresh from our brief discussion of the explosive documentary From Russia with Cash, we have a quote of the day from Roberto Saviano, an expert on the Italian crime organisation Camorra, via The Indendent: "The British treat it as not their problem because there aren’t corpses on the street." … [Read more...]
From Russia with cash: the London laundry exposed
From Britain's Channel 4, a superb exposé of Britain's high-end property circus market and the willingness of sellers to accept money from all sources, no matter how dubious. It is hilarious and ghastly, at the same time. This is money stolen from some of the world's poorest people, going into … [Read more...]
Links Jul 8
European Parliament sets the stage for Europe to embrace more corporate fiscal transparency Financial Transparency Coalition See also: The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting Tax Research UK The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks The … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #66
Advance Australia fair? Seemingly the days of stashing a million bucks into a secret numbered bank account in Singapore are over. … [Read more...]
Fake residency: the yawning loophole the OECD must close
The OECD's Common Reporting Standards (CRS) is the big game in town for curbing cross-border financial transparency. As we've often noted, it is a good project, with global reach, but with loopholes. One of the biggest of these loopholes, perhaps -- after Loophole USA -- is the problem of 'fake … [Read more...]
IMF: US isn’t doing enough to curb financial secrecy
From Agence France Presse: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that the United States was moving too slowly to prevent the use of shell and front companies to hide ownership. … [Read more...]
New US study lends support to Financial Transaction Tax
A new report from the Tax Policy Center (TPC), a U.S. nonpartisan joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, looks at the potential revenue yields from a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) and how the burden of the tax would fall on the U.S. population. It also notes that the … [Read more...]
Debate: Has corporation tax had its day?
We have previously commented on the lobbying effort to kill off the corporate income tax (CIT). In a debate published in the latest edition of Tax Journal, TJN's director John Christensen goes head to head in discussion with Stephen Herring, head of taxation at the UK's Institute of … [Read more...]
Stop the bleeding: new African tax justice campaign
Via the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Last week the Interim Working Group of the African IFF Campaign Platform launched the “Stop the Bleeding” campaign in Uhuru park, a place historically associated with the struggle for freedom in Nairobi, Kenya. … [Read more...]
