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...]
Archives for 2020
VIRTUAL EVENT: Health versus Wealth? Tax and transparency in the age of Covid-19
Powerful shocks like pandemics, wars or financial crashes have an impact on society, but the nature of that impact depends on the theories people hold about history, society, the balance of power – in a word, ideology – which varies from place to place. It always takes major social and political … [Read more...]
Why many Berlin real estate owners remain secret despite new transparency laws
Cayman Islands, a place of registration for several Berlin companies indirectly owning German real estate. Photo: Michael Klein Guest blog by Christoph Trautvetter, Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit For anyone who cares about beneficial ownership transparency the spotlight should be on the … [Read more...]
COVID-19: India’s self-employed women, rights and a sustainable response
Acknowledgement: The Tax Justice Network is grateful for the information provided by India’s Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The COVID 19 pandemic has ‘flipped’ our understanding of many things which we took for granted pre-lockdown. One of these is the role of the state. … [Read more...]
US appeals court confirms firm must disclose to IRS names of clients behind offshore bank accounts and foreign entities
On 24 April 2020 the US Court of Appeals for the fifth circuit ruled that a US law firm must disclose to the US tax authority (the Internal Revenue Service) the names of requested clients in connection to an investigation. Specifically, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had asked for documents … [Read more...]
A Feminist Response to COVID-19
Today we are delighted to support the launch of a new and critically important website: 'a volunteer online data repository of information on feminist principles and actions, as well as policy responses to the COVID crisis.' After the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2020 was … [Read more...]
UK u-turns on commitment to tax transparency, giving up £10 billion in corporate tax
The Tax Justice Network has raised the alarm on the UK's regression into tax havenry The UK missed out on collecting £2.5 billion a year in corporate tax from multinational corporations due to the UK government failing to exercise a 2016 tax transparency law designed to prevent billions in … [Read more...]
Edition 15 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: édition 15 de podcast Francophone: L’aide hypocrite du G20 à l’Afrique face au Coronavirus
Here’s the 15th 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 Network produite en … [Read more...]
Edition 28 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast #28 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-eighth 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 Network Portuguese podcast #12: Uma nova economia pós-coronavírus
Quais são os rumos para a sociedade global, vencida a pandemia? Como não repetir erros de outras crises e apostar em novos paradigmas? Estas reflexões são feitas por uma diversidade de economistas: Laura Carvalho, Pedro Rossi, Áurea Mouzinho, Marco Antonio Rocha, Inocência Mapisse, Thomaz Jensen, … [Read more...]
A “world fit for money laundering” must end in the post Covid-19 era
We're sharing here the details of explosive new research on "the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry." This new research was carried out by our senior … [Read more...]
EU loses over $27 billion in corporate tax a year to UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Netherlands
"Axis of tax avoidance” cost EU 12 times budget of ERC, Europe’s Nobel prizes winning science body EU member states are losing over $17 billion in corporate tax a year from US firms abusing the law to shift their profits into the UK, Switzerland and Luxembourg, where corporate tax rates in … [Read more...]
New group to promote beneficial ownership verification pilots around the world
On 2 April 2020 the Tax Justice Network co-organised together with the Financial Transparency Coalition, Transparency International, Global Witness, Global Financial Integrity, Open Ownership, The B Team and the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), the first … [Read more...]
Healthy economies: the Tax Justice Network podcast, April 2020
In the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast, the Taxcast: from the ashes of the coronavirus crisis how can we build a better economic and socially just system that works for all of us? The pandemic also exposes the pile-up of unaddressed crises which we must also fix. A transcript is available here … [Read more...]
Fiança ou resgate? Especialistas da Tax Justice Network elaboraram teste em cinco etapas para governos aplicarem antes de resgatar empresas diante da #Covid-19
This is a Portuguese translation of the Tax Justice Network's proposal of a 5-step test for coronavirus bailouts. A Spanish translation is available here (external website). Dinamarca, Polônia, França, Argentina já anunciaram e outros países europeus estão estudando não auxiliar empresas que … [Read more...]
