Ten years ago the G20 countries committed to taking the global lead in combatting climate change. However, a new report tracking government subsidies to the fossil fuel industries reveals that despite the promises made in 2009, major G20 countries, including Japan which hosts the 2019 G20 meeting … [Read more...]
Archives for 2019
Statistics on automatic exchange of banking information and the right to hold authorities (and banks) to account
New publications in the US, the UK, Switzerland and Japan show that better statistics on cross-border exchanges of financial information are possible and necessary to hold governments and financial institutions accountable. Large amounts of financial information are now being shared automatically … [Read more...]
What should we be doing about tax and the climate crisis?
Climate breakdown represents an existential threat to the future of humanity. Unless governments around the world take urgent action to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, it seems likely that the very best-case scenario is that many of the global development achievements of the last few decades … [Read more...]
Job vacancy: Data scientist
We're hiring again! Details of the new Data Scientist role below, and job information pack to download here. Key facts Application closing date: Sunday 21 July 2019 Start date: September or October 2019 Reports to: Chief Executive Contract: Permanent Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours … [Read more...]
Response to Crown Dependencies’ beneficial ownership plans: “The opposite of leadership”
Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man have today announced a series of steps regarding each jurisdiction’s central register of beneficial ownership information of companies. Responding to the announcement, John Christensen, Director at the Tax Justice Network, said: “This is the opposite of … [Read more...]
We asked our stakeholders to challenge us on our work
Should we at the Tax Justice Network be doing more to engage with organisations in the global south? Should we be focusing more on high-level advocacy or talking more about progressive taxes instead of tax avoidance? These questions and more were put to us at our organisational retreat this spring … [Read more...]
How can Africa take action against corporate tax havenry? Solutions from the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2019
How have former colonial powers maintained their stranglehold on African economies? The UK with its spider’s web of satellite jurisdictions and France are complicit in undermining the ability of African governments to tax multinational companies. Other corporate tax havens also put African countries … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s June 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, junio 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...]
A boost for the UN Tax Committee
We're sharing here an article from Abdul Muheet Chowdhary, who is a consultant in the Policy Planning and Research Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in India and formerly a consultant with the United Nations. The article originally appeared here on the blog of GLOBTAXGOV – A New Model … [Read more...]
Job vacancy: Operations Associate
We're hiring again! Details of the new Operations Associate role below, and job information pack to download here. Key facts: Application closing date: Sunday 7 July 2019Start date: Monday 2 September 2019Reports to: Director of OperationsContract: PermanentHours: Between 15 and 22 hours per … [Read more...]
Twenty reasons to shrink your financial centre
(Cross-posted with financecurse.net) The Finance Curse is a concept first developed by the Tax Justice Network. It is a relatively simple idea -- and also an original and powerful multi-level critique of the modern global economy. The core message is "too much finance can make a country … [Read more...]
Whistleblower Rudolf Elmer: legal opinion on latest ruling
We’ve written many times about Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer’s long legal battles against Swiss banking secrecy here, here, here here and here. He’s endured 48 prosecutorial interrogations, 6 months in solitary confinement and 70 court rulings. Of one thing you can be sure – if the Swiss bank … [Read more...]
Edition 17 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 17# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the seventeenth 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 … [Read more...]
Edition #4 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: #4 édition de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the fourth edition of the Tax Justice Network’s new monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ It’s available for anyone who wants to listen to … [Read more...]
Our new tax justice monthly podcast in Portuguese: nosso novo podcast em português
The Tax Justice Network now speaks tax justice in five languages on radio stations and podcast platforms across the world, all with their own unique content and style - English, Spanish, French, Arabic and now Portuguese. So, welcome to our brand new monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in … [Read more...]
