This article first appeared in Handelsblatt on 19 February 2020. Just a couple of years ago, some members of a Lebanese family were suspected of committing mafia-style crimes, including blackmail, drug-dealing, the theft of a giant gold coin (100 kg!) from Berlin’s Bode Museum, and the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
Financial Secrecy Index: who are the world’s worst offenders? The Tax Justice Network podcast special, February 2020
In this special extended Taxcast, Naomi Fowler takes you on a whistle-stop guided tour on an express train around the world with some of the Tax Justice Network team, looking at the worst offenders selling secrecy services according to the latest Financial Secrecy Index results What can nations can … [Read more...]
How the Finance Curse hurts U.S. agriculture
An article in the U.S. magazine The Nation, written by today's blogger (pictured above), highlights how the finance curse strikes U.S. agriculture. It starts by focusing on the political divides that seem to have opened up between the so-called "coastal elites" which tend to vote for Democrats, … [Read more...]
Financial Secrecy Index 2020 reports progress on global transparency – but backsliding from US, Cayman and UK prompts call for sanctions
US overtakes Switzerland in global ranking of financial secrecy hotbeds, Cayman leaps over both to top of the index The US has overtaken Switzerland in a global ranking of countries most complicit in helping individuals to hide their finances from the rule of law – but Cayman has leapfrogged both … [Read more...]
EU blacklists UK’s crown jewel tax haven while letting other tax havens off the hook
EU blacklist adds Cayman but addresses only 7% of global financial secrecy, while UK’s ‘Singapore on Thames’ threat looks increasingly self-defeating The EU will add British territory Cayman to a blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions on Tuesday, firing a shot across the City of London’s bow … [Read more...]
US launch event for Financial Secrecy Index 2020
Join Tax Justice Network and the FACT Coalition for a discussion of the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index and relevant US legislation. As Congress considers measures to combat financial secrecy and end the formation of anonymous companies in the United States, the Tax Justice Network and the Financial … [Read more...]
After Brexit, EU blacklists UK’s territory Cayman
From the Financial Times: The Cayman Islands will join Oman, Fiji, and Vanuatu on an EU blacklist of foreign tax havens, making it the first UK overseas territory to be named and shamed by Brussels We have lambasted Europe's blacklists for years, which are based above all on political … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s February 2020 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, febrero 2020
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...]
Edition 12 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: édition #12 de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the twelfth edition of Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. Nous sommes fiers de partager avec vous cette nouvelle émission de radio / podcast du Réseau pour la Justice Fiscale, Tax Justice … [Read more...]
Edition 25 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast 25# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-fifth 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...]
A Pyrrhic victory for the OECD?
Image credit: "Πύρρος της Ηπείρου, Άρτα" by Dimitris Graffin is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The OECD secretariat has announced that it obtained agreement from the Inclusive Framework to press ahead with its own proposals, following US-French agreement of sorts - but at what price … [Read more...]
Tax Justice January 2020 Portuguese podcast #9: IPTU – o bode expiatório dos impostos
No início de cada ano no Brasil, as prefeituras começam a cobrar o Imposto sobre a Propriedade Predial e Territorial Urbana (IPTU). Mas quanto se arrecada e para onde vai o dinheiro arrecadado? É sobre isso que vamos falar no episódio 9 do podcast É da sua conta. O IPTU é um tributo que … [Read more...]
Videos: Touring London, the capital of secrecy
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit will become a reality in just a few days time. January 31st will be a historic moment, for both Europe and the United Kingdom, marked by jubilant celebrations in some circles and profound misgivings in others. One very small but extremely powerful … [Read more...]
Another Great Depression or tax justice and transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 podcast
The Taxcast kicks off the new decade with: the French strikes - tax justice and pensions vs financialisationthe EU countries who've missed the deadline on publishing registers of real corporate ownersthe effect of Brexit on poorer (aka plundered) countriesAnd the IMF's stark warnings about the … [Read more...]
Luanda Leaks: the effects on the ground in Africa
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has today published a set of reports based on 715,000 leaked documents about Angola, and particularly Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos. In summary, dos Santos enjoyed tremendous Angolan … [Read more...]
