Leak after leak has confirmed what African citizens have long suspected: the elite hide their actions and identities to loot state resources and reduce taxes owed. A new study published today by the Tax Justice Network Africa and Tax Justice Network examines one of the steps African countries are … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
Carbon Taxes Can Be Progressive: Myth-busting and Mainstreaming Carbon Taxes
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Jacqueline Cottrell, in which she explains that while carbon taxes were once at the centre of discussions about tackling climate crisis, aggressive lobbying by fossil … [Read more...]
Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, June 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: We look at the United States and how tax justice can help address systemic racism.Plus: did you know Britain's slave owners compensation loan was only settled by the government in 2015 on behalf of taxpayers? Faulkner … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #14: De onde virá o dinheiro para salvar vidas?
Existem “pílulas tributárias” para uma retomada econômica mais sustentável e redistributiva. O episódio #14 do É da sua conta receita quatro “pílulas” que podem fortalecer o orçamento público para que governos tomem decisões justas no enfrentamento da crise, priorizando o combate à pobreza … [Read more...]
Seeking a tax justice podcast commentator and consultant in Arabic
The Tax Justice Network produces five monthly podcasts: the Taxcast in English, Justicia ImPositiva in Spanish, Impôts et Justice Sociale in French, É da sua conta in Portuguese, and our Arabic podcast الجباية ببساطة Our monthly podcasts are aimed at ordinary citizens, campaigners and … [Read more...]
Track your country’s vulnerability to illicit financial flows with our new tool
Illicit financial flows are transfers of money from one country to another that are forbidden by law, rules or custom. They damage economies, societies, public finances and governance of countries around the globe. A key challenge to tackling illicit financial flows is the difficulty countries face … [Read more...]
US blows up global project to tax multinational corporations. What now?
"(Other nations) had all come together" via the OECD to "screw America and that’s just not something we’re ever going to be a part of".~ US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer addressing Congress, 17 June 2020, per Sydney Morning Herald. Boom. The US has blown up 'BEPS 2.0', the OECD's tax … [Read more...]
The Reboot #2: how to pay for the pandemic (video)
Everyone knows the global economic system isn’t working in the interests of most of us. In our new video series the Reboot we talk about how to fix it. From lockdown because of covid19 Naomi Fowler speaks to John Christensen and Nicholas Shaxson of the Tax Justice Network. In this second episode … [Read more...]
Covid-19: An opportunity for structural reforms to create a people-centred economic system
TJN-AFRICA STATEMENT This statement from Tax Justice Network-Africa, reproduced below, can be accessed in pdf format here. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed systemic inequalities in the current social, political and economic systems. African countries are disproportionately bearing the brunt … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: Los ganadores de la pandemia
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...]
COVID-19: Progressive Tax Measures to Realize Rights
Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic people are bracing themselves. ‘Build back better’ is the mantra, but what does that mean in terms of tax justice and human rights? How should governments respond in the face of anticipated economic and social hardships? Like many others we are … [Read more...]
Tax, reparations and ‘Plan B’ for the UK’s tax haven web
The killing of George Floyd by US police in Minnesota, on 25 May 2020, has sparked a public response both more powerful and more international than almost any of the previous cases in a very long line - including Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, 13 March 2020. The demands for justice extend far beyond … [Read more...]
Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry
Update: you can hear Naomi Fowler and John Christensen discussing this research in edition 102 of the Taxcast, our monthly podcast, starting about 2 minutes in: It's hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished 'paying off' the debt which … [Read more...]
What’s your SCORE? The case for Sustainable Cost Reporting
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Richard Murphy, in which he outlines how radical changes to accounting rules would require companies to comprehensively disclose their carbon emissions. Sustainable Cost … [Read more...]
Nixon-era laws have shaped western racism and protected ‘enablers’ of financial crimes
This guest blog written by Dr Mary Alice Young of the University of the West England proposes that in the aftermath of Covid-19, Western governments must redress antiquated and inherently racist organised crime control laws By Dr Mary Alice Young* Organised crime is not homogeneous, and is … [Read more...]
