As we announced last week, the OECD has published data showing that financial accounts holding more than ten trillion euros are now the subject of multilateral, automatic information exchange - a longstanding tax justice goal that the OECD had long resisted. Now James Henry - a senior adviser to Tax … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
Hypocrisy of “frugal” Netherlands lambasted by tax haven watchdog
New analysis shows simple tax transparency measure could raise $20bn across the EU annually – and set the course to end European tax havenry With the European Union set to resume troubled negotiations over a recovery fund that could provide the necessary support for countries hit hardest by the … [Read more...]
In Apple’s victory lies a defeat for women’s rights
Earlier this week the European Court of Justice (ECJ) published its ruling on Ireland’s state aid to Apple, annulling an earlier decision against the country and the tech giant. This new ruling means that the Irish Government does not need to collect the 13.1 billion Euro which Apple might have … [Read more...]
Taking Panama to task: Women’s rights trampled by financial secrecy
Just over four years have passed since a huge archive of secret documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, containing wide-ranging details of fraud, tax evasion and other illegal financial schemes, were leaked to a German newspaper provoking a global scandal. The public outcry that … [Read more...]
A response to the European court’s bad Apple ruling
Today’s Apple decision confirms that the European Union’s rules against state aid are not up to the job of preventing EU member states operating as tax havens. Powerful tax justice reforms are needed, rather than broader application of state aid rules. Neither the EU nor any other countries will be … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: ¿Cómo salir de la crisis económica y sanitaria mundial?
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! (Ahora también estamos en iTunes y tenemos un nuevo … [Read more...]
Is financial secrecy always bad?
The Tax Justice Network has long been an opponent of financial secrecy. Wealthy oligarchs, criminals, and looters have increasingly been paying lawyers, accountants and bankers to set up secrecy vehicles such as trusts, foundations and shell companies to hide their ownership of all sorts of assets … [Read more...]
Watershed data indicates more than a trillion dollars of corporate profit smuggled into tax havens
This blog is also available in French and German. UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands – the “axis of tax avoidance” – are responsible for 72 per cent of global tax losses Analysis of new OECD data published yesterday, on the basis of a reporting standard developed by the Tax … [Read more...]
Pandemic of tax injustice in Ukraine
The Ukrainian government took the pandemic as an opportunity to further shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor, while Tax Justice Network's new illicit financial flows tool confirms the country is vulnerable to profits shifting to tax havens and bank deposits outflows. Guest blog from … [Read more...]
Moving beyond poverty begins with tax justice
The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Professor Philip Alston has concluded his missions to observe the state of human rights in various countries, with strong condemnation of the failures to eradicate poverty. And he begins and concludes his final … [Read more...]
Exploring UK companies’ legal ownership chains to detect red flags and verify beneficial ownership information: Part 1
By Andres Knobel and Oliver Seabarron The Tax Justice Network in cooperation with the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam (@UvACORPNET) and the Data Analytics and Society Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Sheffield (@DataCDT) has mined and applied advanced analytics to … [Read more...]
Generation Equality – Calling young feminists for tax justice
The call for youth-led organisations and movements to lead the Action Coalitions for Generation Equality has been reopened by UN Women. Deadline 19 July 2020. UN Women is part of the United Nation and is the overall convener of the Action Coalitions. The Action Coalitions cover six … [Read more...]
It’s got to be automatic: Trillions of dollars offshore revealed by Tax Justice Network policy success
This is a moment, in these strange times, to celebrate an ongoing success in the history of the tax justice movement. Automatic, multilateral exchange of information on financial accounts is the A of our ABC of tax transparency. It has been a campaign aim since our inception in the early 2000s, as … [Read more...]
Edition 30 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast #30 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the 30th 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 Rights, also … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: Un nouvel outil pour traquer la vulnérabilité aux flux financier Illicites, édition 17
Here’s the 17th edition of Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa produced and presented 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...]
