In our April 2017 Taxcast: the Panama Papers, one year on - we talk to the journalists who got the scoop. Plus: we discuss the raid on Credit Suisse, and new data exposing the profit shifting shennanigans of the EU's biggest banks. Featuring: The Panama Papers scoop journalists and Pulitzer Prize … [Read more...]
Archives for 2017
The Offshore Wrapper – Monday 17 April
For those of you out there celebrating Easter, Happy Easter! Here's a slightly delayed weekly roundup of news from the world of tax justice. … [Read more...]
Our April 2017 Spanish Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de abril 2017
Welcome to our monthly podcast and radio programme in Spanish, Justicia ImPositiva with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). Our monthly … [Read more...]
Beneficial Ownership: a Tax Justice Network checklist
We're pleased to say that the world is moving towards the registration of beneficial owners (BOs) who are the natural persons who ultimately own, control or benefit from legal persons (e.g. companies) and legal arrangements (e.g. trusts). If made public, these registries would increase financial … [Read more...]
Open Cayman: Reputation, rhetoric and reality
By Alex Cobham https://youtu.be/2An-A4U00DU?t=23m16s Last week I took up the kind invitation of the government of Cayman to speak at their conference on 'Tax Transparency in the Global Financial Services Ecosystem', and to meet with staff from the monetary authority, statistics office and … [Read more...]
Australian beer drinker tax vs the world’s biggest gas companies
Is it fair that Australians pay more tax on one beer than the oil and gas industry pays in petroleum tax on offshore gas in a year? Might a 10% royalty guaranteeing annual revenue of between $1.3 billion and $2.8 billion be a better way to go? These are the issues rightly raised by a report just … [Read more...]
Tax haven blacklisting in Latin America
As governments (slowly) get to grips with the fact that tax havens are inflicting great harm on economies and democracies across the globe, facilitating mega amounts of tax dodging, and vast movements of criminal money by way of the secrecy services some of them offer, the question of our times is … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: the Panama Papers, one year on
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper - your weekly update from TJN. Happy Paniversary! This week it's been one year since the Panama Papers were leaked, and a number of organisations around the world have been marking the occasion though the global week of action for tax justice. In London, … [Read more...]
New film: The Price of Fairness
This new film, which features TJN Director John Christensen, explores the notion that human beings have an evolutionary tendency towards selfish behaviour and asks whether the widespread dislike of inequality is rooted in the human need for cooperation. … [Read more...]
Work for us!
Tax Justice Network is recruiting a Head of Operations. The Head of Operations will lead TJN’s corporate functions, with a particular focus on Financial and Reporting Systems, Human Resources, Governance and Accountability policy, procedure implementation, contract management, risk assessment and … [Read more...]
Protesting PwC: Professionals Without Conscience
This week is the global week of action for tax justice and on Wednesday 5th April activists from the Tax Justice Network and Methodists for Tax Justice held a protest outside the London offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers. The global week of action for tax justice is happening one year after the … [Read more...]
Panama Papers: Who were the big players?
The Panama Papers revealed a systemic challenge to global governance, in which the big players are major banks, multinationals and the biggest financial centres of all. Unsurprisingly, much of the coverage of the Panama Papers focused on juicy, individual stories: political conflicts of interest, … [Read more...]
Germany moves forward on corporate transparency
The Bundesrat has today voted to recommend implementing a public register of the beneficial ownership of companies and trusts. Great news from Germany, as the country takes an important step forward towards corporate transparency. … [Read more...]
The problems with measuring tax systems
The following blog by TJN's Nicholas Shaxson (currently on a book writing sabbatical) was originally posted on the SPERI blog and is re-posted here with permission. In debates about tax policy we need to de-emphasise the role of economics and measurement and rekindle the politics … [Read more...]
Corruption in Africa: Misleading index and bribery by foreign companies
By Nico Beckert We are really pleased to publish this blog by Nico Beckert, which returns to a familiar theme for TJN. That is, how perceptions of corruption from Western experts too often hide the real perpetrators of corrupt acts. … [Read more...]
