Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s … [Read more...]
Archives for 2018
Is Germany’s finance minister the puppet of Big Finance?
Update, Feb 22, 2019: German Finance Minister Scholz blocks tax transparency. The Financial Times is carrying an article this week titled "Berlin falls in love with big banks" in which it quotes Chancellor Angela Merkel and her centre-left finance minister, Olaf Scholz, as having started a … [Read more...]
Edition 8 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 8# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the eighth edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for … [Read more...]
Links August 29
Analysis: How rich oil firms are using secretive court to fight capital gains tax in developing world Finance Uncovered Opinion: 3 years since the launch of Addis Tax Initiative, what's been achieved? Devex A first-timer’s guide to anonymously leaking information via SecureDrop ICIJ Here’s … [Read more...]
Fintech, hotbed of offshore deregulation and crime
Reuters has just published an article titled Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs. (Fintech is short for "financial + technology" and it is about bringing technology into the financial sector.) Switzerland's move is, apparently: part of a drive to boost … [Read more...]
Tax “stability” short-changes Burkina Faso
A couple of years ago we wrote a blog entitled Beware the siren song of “tax certainty, which took apart a widespread consensus that it is important for countries to embrace 'tax certainty' and 'stability.' These motherhood-and-apple-pie terms hide a world of mischief: not least the fact that this … [Read more...]
Guest blog: Long Overdue Arrival of “Tax Justice Aotearoa New Zealand”
We are delighted to bring you this announcement from TJANZ, and to welcome them wholeheartedly to the growing global family of tax justice organisations: Tax Justice Aotearoa New Zealand (TJANZ) has just been launched in Wellington. As a partner of the international Tax Justice Network, we will … [Read more...]
Webinar on Unequal Exchange – 29 August 2018 at 11:00 UTC – 12:00 UTC
Presentation by: Andres Knobel, Tax Justice Network Developing countries lose billions of dollars every year due to illicit financial flows or IFFs. One of the big obstacles countries face in curbing IFFs is the access to information, especially from developed countries that happen to be tax … [Read more...]
Links August 20
Second Panama Papers Leak: Findings From Around The World ICIJ The Peruvian paradox: surging mineral production, lagging tax revenues Oxfam – The Politics of Poverty United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) urges Africa to combat money laundering, bribery, tax evasion for increased … [Read more...]
The Curse of Laffer: Trump’s tax cuts see revenues plunge 25 percent
We've previously blogged on Donald Trump's plans for cutting corporate income tax, and now they've come to fruition we can see the results as far as the USA is concerned. Tax receipts are plummeting, despite the economic boom stimulated by his predecessor's QE programme. Commentators have widely … [Read more...]
Links August 15
Building Africa’s capacities to tax diamonds with Tax Inspectors Without Borders UNDP Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development New book, via the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) Oil firms use secretive court hearing in bid to stop Vietnam taxing their profits The … [Read more...]
Are tax incentives in Nigeria attracting investment or giving away revenue?
For over a decade, Nigeria, like so many developing countries, has been granting a number of tax incentives to multinational companies in a bid to attract foreign direct investment. Proponents of the incentives argue that the measures are vital to the development of the economy, while critics point … [Read more...]
Links August 13
Kathmandu Declaration on Curbing Illicit Financial Flows: Restoring Justice for Human Rights Financial Transparency Coalition Venezuelan president implicated in US investigation of €160 million laundered through Malta The Malta Independent Daphne Caruana Galizia: family of murdered Maltese … [Read more...]
Extreme inequality levels in Bermuda despite its offshore services centre, in the Tax Justice Network’s August 2018 podcast
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it's huge offshore services centre? We speak to Bermudian economist Robert Stubbs and hear from … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network’s August 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, agosto 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s … [Read more...]
