Imagine if over 50 per cent of the world’s population were cast with an invisibility that impacts their birth, their childhood, their working life, their parenting life, their caring life, their mental and physical health and well-being, and their death? Less hard to imagine, perhaps, if you are one … [Read more...]
Archives for 2019
Seeking a Portuguese language radio and podcast producer (Produtor programa de rádio/podcast português)
The Tax Justice Network is seeking a journalist who is fluent in Portuguese and English to produce a monthly Portuguese-language 30-minute podcast and radio show. Each show will cover global tax justice news and ideas, with a focus on Brazil and Lusophone Africa, and will offer accessible, … [Read more...]
Registration now open for Tax Justice Network’s 2019 annual conference
We’re delighted to present the programme for the Tax Justice Network’s 2019 conference, at https://www.taxjustice.net/tjn19. Registration is now open at the same address. The conference, jointly hosted this year with City, University of London and the Association for Accountancy and Business … [Read more...]
‘The Magic Money Tree:’ From Modern Monetary Theory to Modern Tax Theory
by John Christensen and Nicholas Shaxson Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has gained prominence since the global financial crisis. The rising star US politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said recently we should be “open” to its ideas, and some mainstream economists have given it a (qualified) … [Read more...]
When will the British government impose public registries on its tax havens?
UPDATED Not so long ago Lee Sheppard, one of the US's top experts in international tax, gave a pithy and accurate explanation of why powerful countries don't just close down the tax havens that are undermining their tax and criminal justice and regulatory systems. We don't shut [these financial … [Read more...]
Edition 14 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 14# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of our 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...]
Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a Tax Justice Network idea bears fruit
The Economist is running an article about a fairly new body called Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a programme backed by the OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to provide tax assistance to hard-pressed revenue authorities in poorer countries, whose underpaid officials struggle to … [Read more...]
NEW: Francophone Africa Tax Justice Network podcast goes live: lancement d’un Podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We're proud to share the Tax Justice Network's brand new podcast/radio show produced in, and for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale. It's available to anyone who wants to listen to it, and, as is the case with all our … [Read more...]
Job vacancy: Tax Justice Network Conference Intern
We’re hiring again! Details of the role below, and job information pack to download here. Update 20 March: This post has now closed and applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Key facts: Application closing date: Sunday 17 March 2019 Start date: Monday 8 … [Read more...]
The #LuxLeaks corporate tax deals – still no investigation? Plus financialisation of ‘aid’ in the Tax Justice Network February 2019 podcast
In Edition 86 of the February 2019 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): why hasn't the European Commission investigated any of the secret tax deals that were exposed by the LuxLeaks whistleblowers … [Read more...]
World’s biggest monopolist pays negative taxes
Via the Washington Post: According to an analysis by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP,) a leading US tax justice group, Amazon got a $129 million tax rebate last year, equivalent to a minus one per cent US federal tax rate, its second year running of negative taxes. (Its … [Read more...]
New report: Are European corporate registries equipped to tackle tax evasion and financial crime?
A new report published today by the Tax Justice Network, focuses on the role that corporate registries in the European member states play in fighting fiscal fraud and tax avoidance. The report presents results from a new survey sent out by the Tax Justice Network to corporate registries of all … [Read more...]
Fair Tax Week in the UK
We're sharing this information below from our friends and colleagues at the Fair Tax Mark, who are doing so much great work to celebrate those many businesses which do pay their fair taxes by awarding them the Fair Tax Mark, moving towards a fairer economy for all. Their Fair Tax Week takes place … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s February 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, febrero 2019
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...]
Why has the European Commission not investigated #LuxLeaks tax deals?
Today Simon Bowers of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists asks a very pertinent question, which you can read in full here. Some of the deals signed behind closed doors, brokered by accountancy firm PwC, known as “tax rulings” — meant some companies were able to pay less than 1 … [Read more...]
