In our monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? As the world buckles up for a different kind of crisis tackling the Coronavirus, we look at how … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
Investors demand OECD tax transparency
Investors responsible for trillions of dollars of assets have called on the OECD to ensure that the country by country reporting of multinational companies is made public. With leading experts, standard setters and civil society groups fully in agreement, the only remaining opposition to this most … [Read more...]
Guest Blog: How to Tackle Audit Failures
Auditors have been described as gatekeepers of capitalism, yet there is widespread concern that the current Coronavirus pandemic, and the global recession that will inevitably accompany it, reveals a pattern of audit failures similar to recent high-profile corporate failures which surfaced in the … [Read more...]
Financing Climate Justice
As the climate crisis comes into ever sharper focus the question of how we pay for a just transition takes on ever greater urgency. In this, the first of a two-part special edition of Tax Justice Focus, guest edited by TJN Senior Adviser James Henry, we have brought together key policy proposals to … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: ¿Quienes son los más responsables del secreto financiero mundial?
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 radiofónico! (Ahora también estamos en … [Read more...]
Make Taxes Work For Women
Great that you remembered 8 March is International Women's Day! The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) has too! The Global Alliance and its members around the world have been organising and today begin the Global Days of Action on #TaxJustice for #WomensRights, 8-20 March 2020! Here's what's … [Read more...]
Rev Paul Nicholson: a lifelong justice campaigner R.I.P.
We are sad to hear of the death of the Reverend Paul Nicholson. Paul was a lifelong campaigner for social and economic justice, always fighting on behalf of vulnerable people, and happy to use his extensive knowledge and experience to push back against oppression. This blogger had the good … [Read more...]
Lessons learned from organising our first virtual conference
In December 2019, the Tax Justice Network held its first virtual conference, bringing together over 150 people from around the world from Portland to Sydney. Offices, living rooms and libraries on different continents were connected into one virtual space where speakers from the OECD, G24, … [Read more...]
Slander and failed advertising campaigns: how tax haven officials responded to the Financial Secrecy Index 2020
This year’s edition of the Financial Secrecy Index 2020 – our biennial ranking of the world’s biggest supplies of financial secrecy – has received more news coverage and global support than any previous editions of the index. With over 700 news articles and broadcast pieces published on the index in … [Read more...]
Malta, murder and the finance curse: a podcast recommendation
This four-part podcast special series is well worth a listen. It's called My Mother's Murder, an investigation into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. It is narrated by one of her sons Paul Caruana Galizia. Here's part of the description of the podcast series: Daphne investigated … [Read more...]
Gender Equality: Can Taxation Make It A Reality?
© United Nations Photo Days before the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women was scheduled to meet in New York to focus on the gender equality aims promised in global agreements, goals and declarations, writes Liz Nelson, will we finally look beyond traditional thinking about how … [Read more...]
The Financial Secrecy Index reached a record-breaking number of people this year
Image credit: © 2011 Jens Schott Knudsen Launched two weeks ago, the 2020 edition of our Financial Secrecy Index has broken every record we track on the index’s reach and media impact. First published in 2009, the global coverage of this year’s edition of the index reflects a growing … [Read more...]
Edition 13 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: édition 13 de podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the 13th edition of Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon covering the Financial Secrecy Index 2020 results. Nous sommes fiers de partager avec vous cette nouvelle émission de radio/podcast du … [Read more...]
Edition 26 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast 26# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-sixth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal … [Read more...]
Tax Justice February 2020 Portuguese podcast #10: Ilhas Cayman é o pior ofensor global, mostra Índice de Sigilo Financeiro 2020
O Índice de Sigilo Financeiro 2020 da Tax Justice Network é o tema da décima edição do podcast É da sua conta. O indicador aponta as Ilhas Cayman, Estados Unidos e Suíça como os piores ofensores globais. Além disso, mostra que a maior parte das práticas que facilitam a corrupção, a lavagem de … [Read more...]
