Yes, we can build an open and transparent tax system that works fairly for everyone. Do you know how multinationals shift their profits to dodge their taxes and how we can stop them? Our beautifully illustrated new videos tell you how, narrated in five different languages by our tax justice podcast … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
Take action to stop corporate tax cheating in Europe
* SIGN THE PETITION ON CORPORATE TAX TRANSPARENCY NOW * Every year, corporate tax avoidance costs countries around the world an estimated US$ 500 billion or more. One reason for these losses is that companies are able to hide their financial affairs: from tax authorities, and from the public. … [Read more...]
The Financial Infrastructure of Corruption
We recently published a special edition of Tax Justice Focus on national security, guest edited by Jack Blum, Charles Davidson and Ben Judah. You can read their editorial here. In the following article, Yakov Feygin from the Berggruen Institute, argues that the United States could and should use … [Read more...]
Tax havens harm our well-being and security
Image: NeoNazi_02″ by Chad Johnson is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This week we published a special edition of Tax Justice Focus on national security, guest edited by Jack Blum, Charles Davidson and Ben Judah. You can read their editorial here. In the coming days we will publish the five … [Read more...]
Offshore, National Security and Britain’s Role
Image: NeoNazi_02" by Chad Johnson is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The long recession precipitated by the 2008 financial crisis fed political failures across the world, increasing inequality and polarising societies to the point of social breakdown. As far-right movements threaten to take … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: Dinero sucio y los más grandes bancos del mundo #52
Welcome to this month’s 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! Estamos en iTunes y tenemos un sitio web. Envien un … [Read more...]
OECD’s “tax haven lite” blueprint fails pandemic-gripped world
Blueprints published by the OECD today1 on how it plans to tackle tax havens do not come close to the reforms needed, the Tax Justice Network has warned. An estimated $500 billion in corporate tax is lost to tax havens every year under current international rules, and the costs of the worldwide … [Read more...]
How Denmark is verifying beneficial ownership information
Guest blog by Jesper Bertelsen, Danish Business Authority The concept of a well-functioning beneficial owner register sounds achievable and easy, at a first glance. Simply put, legal entities check who their beneficial owners are, and enter this information into a system, in turn making it … [Read more...]
How GDP masks the finance curse
Every country needs a financial centre, but as it grows beyond a certain optimal size (where it is carrying out the functions it is supposed to do) it starts to harm the country that hosts it. That is the finance curse, and many countries including the United States and United Kingdom passed that … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: Contrats miniers: L’opacité domine encore, édition 20
Dans cette vingtième édition de votre podcast Impôts et Justice Sociale, nous revenons sur la transparence des contrats en Afrique centrale. La branche locale de l’ONG Publiez ce que Vous Payez a produit un rapport à cet effet, et son responsable a accepté de discuter des résultats avec nous. Aussi, … [Read more...]
Raising the voices of communities from Asia
Cancel Public Debt, Build Just Tax Systems and End Financial Support for Fossil Fuels in Response to Multiple Crises. In solidarity with our fellow activists and advocates in the Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) we post here their press release regarding the open letter … [Read more...]
‘Competition’ is killing us: the Tax Justice Network podcast, September 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How a competition lawyer's eyes were opened to the dangers of letting companies get too big and form monopolies which act against our interests. We talk to Michelle Meagher about her book just out: Competition is Killing … [Read more...]
“Our tax systems are programmed to fail”: Tax Justice Network comment on FACTI report on global tax abuse
The FACTI panel, a panel of former heads of state and government, past central bank governors, business and civil society leaders and prominent academics, has published an interim report this morning on tax abuse, money laundering and corruption plaguing global finance. The High-Level Panel on … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #17: É hora de Facebook, Amazon e Google pagarem o justo de impostos
Google, Facebook, Amazon e muitas outras empresas da economia digital são muito lucrativas e, ao mesmo tempo, pagam menos impostos que uma loja perto da sua casa, proporcionalmente. É que governos de todo o mundo têm dificuldades para tributar a propaganda nas redes sociais ou serviços de streaming … [Read more...]
Edition 33 and 34 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic podcast #33 #34 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the 33rd and 34th edition of our 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. The programme is available for listeners to download and it’s also … [Read more...]
