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Historic event on women, human rights and tax justice in Bogota
Last week civil society organisations, researchers, labour union activists and policy makers met in Bogota, Colombia to explore how tax justice issues can ensure governments, multinational corporations and others meet their obligations to women in order to secure their full range of human rights. The Women’s Rights and Tax Justice conference opened with a conversation between Rosa Pavenelli (Gen.Secretary of
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper – Monday 17 April
For those of you out there celebrating Easter, Happy Easter! Here’s a slightly delayed weekly roundup of news from the world of tax justice. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: the Panama Papers, one year on
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper – your weekly update from TJN. Happy Paniversary! This week it’s been one year since the Panama Papers were leaked, and a number of organisations around the world have been marking the occasion though the global week of action for tax justice. In London, activists from the TJN and the Methodist Tax Justice Network held
Read the full article…Work for us!
Tax Justice Network is recruiting a Head of Operations. The Head of Operations will lead TJN’s corporate functions, with a particular focus on Financial and Reporting Systems, Human Resources, Governance and Accountability policy, procedure implementation, contract management, risk assessment and management processes, legal compliance as well as oversight of virtual office facilities. The Head of Operations will also support the
Read the full article…Protesting PwC: Professionals Without Conscience
This week is the global week of action for tax justice and on Wednesday 5th April activists from the Tax Justice Network and Methodists for Tax Justice held a protest outside the London offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers. The global week of action for tax justice is happening one year after the release of the Panama Papers. The Panama Papers
Read the full article…Germany moves forward on corporate transparency
The Bundesrat has today voted to recommend implementing a public register of the beneficial ownership of companies and trusts. Great news from Germany, as the country takes an important step forward towards corporate transparency. TweetShare
Corruption in Africa: Misleading index and bribery by foreign companies
By Nico Beckert We are really pleased to publish this blog by Nico Beckert, which returns to a familiar theme for TJN. That is, how perceptions of corruption from Western experts too often hide the real perpetrators of corrupt acts. TweetShare
New estimates reveal the extent of tax avoidance by multinationals
New figures published today by the Tax Justice Network provide a country-level breakdown of the estimated tax losses to profit shifting by multinational companies. Applying a methodology developed by researchers at the International Monetary Fund to an improved dataset, the results indicate global losses of around $500 billion a year. The figures appear in a study published today by the
Read the full article…Banking Secrecy in China, its related territories and Taiwan
Foreword. The Tax Justice Network is a non partisan network of experts working towards transparency, so we do not take any position about countries’ territorial and political claims. However, we do expect countries with a de jure (legal) or de facto (in practice) influence over other territories, to take responsibility for their power. We point fingers at the UK for
Read the full article…New Report – Delivering a level playing field for offshore bank accounts
The Automatic Exchange of Banking Information, which is due to start this year requires nation states to implement domestic legislation to participate in the scheme. The OECD’s Global Forum conducted a (confidential) first-stage evaluation of the laws of countries that want to participate in the system to assess whether they are ready to do so. Now, the Global Forum is
Read the full article…TJN moves forward with work on 2017 Financial Secrecy Index
The next financial secrecy index has now reached its first big milestone with questionnaires being sent out to 112 jurisdictions. TweetShare
Is tax avoidance at the heart of Ireland’s economic miracle?
Coming out of the economic crisis Ireland was one of the best performing economies, with GDP growth rates of 8.5% in 2014 and an extraordinary 26.3% in 2015. But how much of this economic activity was real, and how much a fiction created by Ireland’s tax haven status? A new paper by Heike Joebges of the University of Applied Science in Berlin
Read the full article…Information exchange needs to go beyond tax
The Tax Justice Network is today publishing a report on how governments might improve on proposals to implement automatic exchange of information for tax purposes. The report is based on a survey which was sent to more than 100 tax authorities. One of the most conclusive responses came in how authorities could use the information received from abroad. In this blog
Read the full article…Guest Post – Snowstorm – tax havens and organised crime today
Organised crime has had a long association with tax havens, and tax evasion. After All, Al Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion, and not any of the other crimes that it is said he committed. But how much do governments and police forces include tackling tax havens in their thinking of modern organised crime? Not much according to two experts on the issue Mary
Read the full article…The real losers of the UK becoming a tax haven
For months the public and governments around the world have been totally mystified at the lack of any plan coming from the UK government on how it intends to extract itself from the European Union following the Brexit referendum in June 2016. On Sunday the British Chancellor of the Exchequer revealed the hand of the May government. As seems to have become the
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