Second time lucky? About a year ago in Slovakia some opposition politicians pushed hard for a promising law to shed light onto anonymous ownership through shell companies. The Tax Justice Network supported their efforts by writing a letter to the Prime Minster at the time. Despite widespread public … [Read more...]
Archives for 2017
Links Mar 3
Trusting the Process Kleptocracy Initiative KleptoCast interview with TJN's Andres Knobel about how trusts became the next frontier in dodging taxes and shielding assets Panama Papers: European Parliament tax avoidance fact-finding mission in Luxembourg Luxemburger Wort See also: MEPs’ mission to … [Read more...]
Politicians and their tax returns: a new project from Finance Uncovered
We're pleased to share this information on a very important new project - the Tax Disclosure Project - just launched by our friends at Finance Uncovered, a project originally set up by the Tax Justice Network. The project is requesting that politicians around the world disclose their tax returns, … [Read more...]
Links Mar 1
Book Review: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington LSE Blogs "... an important work for our increasingly unequal world". - Listen to an interview with Brooke Harrington in our December 2015 podcast MP's from Africa and Asia pledge to collaborate in … [Read more...]
An Alternative Approach to Taxing Multinational Companies: new book
We're pleased to announce this latest important book which you can download and read for free here. We're sharing here a blog written by Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network, originally published here by the International Centre for Tax and Development: … [Read more...]
A great day for tax justice: coming closer to ending anonymous ownership
Today will be remembered as a milestone for progress on tax justice. We'd like to think of it as the first steps into a true post-#PanamaPapers era when real, concrete action was taken by Members of the European Parliament towards achieving financial transparency in the public interest. Today we're … [Read more...]
New book: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management
There's a new book out that looks very interesting reading from Professor Jason Sharman with the rather catchy title: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption. It has been reviewed here in The Economist. We haven't read it yet, but this study … [Read more...]
Links Feb 27
Trusts – the hole in the EU’s response to the Panama Papers? Global Witness See also, our report Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice HSBC discloses tax evasion probes in India other countries Economic Times Probes in U.S., France, Belgium, Argentina ... See also: HSBC Sets Aside $773 Million for … [Read more...]
Tax justice annual conference: Call for papers and registration
GLOBAL TAX JUSTICE AT A CROSSROADS SOUTHERN LEADERSHIP AND THE CHALLENGE OF TRUMP AND BREXIT City University London, 5-6 July 2017 Tax justice stands at a crossroads. After a period of sustained but partial progress, 2017 brings with it a strong risk of deterioration. In this year’s annual … [Read more...]
Our February 2017 podcast: Financial transaction taxes to protect us from our finance sectors plus more
In the February 2017 Taxcast, our monthly podcast: how financial transaction taxes can protect us from finance sectors dragging our economies down. Plus: the Swiss referendum - taxpayers have refused to pick up the tab for corporate tax 'reforms'. What does that mean for one of the world's biggest … [Read more...]
Verdict on EU Finance Ministers’ blacklist: ‘whitewashing tax havens’
It's not all bad news coming out of the European Union this month. European Union rapporteurs have made some excellent proposals on the implementation of public country-by-country reporting for multinational companies which you can read about here and here. Now we hope the EU Commission will listen … [Read more...]
Links Feb 22
EU agrees new rules to tackle multinationals tax avoidance The Guardian Don't bank on the EU to create a reliable list of tax havens, TJN's Financial Secrecy Index is more credible. See also: EU finance minister meeting: Blacklist is whitewashing tax havens Sven Giegold Denmark would not oppose … [Read more...]
Event: The Brexit tax haven threat, assessed
As part of a series of seminars looking at the future of public services, the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) and Tax Justice Network are organising a seminar entitled ‘The Brexit tax haven threat assessed’ to be held on Tuesday 14 March 2017, 2pm to 5 pm, HH103, University of … [Read more...]
Links Feb 17
Tackling Illicit Financial Flows - Can Africa Rise to the Challenge? United Nations Economic Commission for Africa / via allAfrica New Zealand to enact tighter foreign trust disclosure rules STEP See also: Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice: new Tax Justice Network report Ireland: Finance … [Read more...]
How could a global public database help to tackle corporate tax avoidance?
A new research report published today looks at the current state and future prospects of a global public database of corporate accounts. We are cross posting this OpenDemocracy article written by Jonathan Gray, with permission from our partners on the open data for tax justice project at Open … [Read more...]
