Online conference: Imperial Inequalities: States, Empires, Taxation and Reparations – Registration open
Two day online conference: 03 and 04 December 7:00 – 12:30 PST / 12:00 – 17:30 GMT / 13:00 – 18:30 CEST / 17:30 – 23:00 IST Co-organised with Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex and Julia McClure, University of Glasgow and based on a forthcoming volume Imperial Inequalities: Taxation and Welfare across European Empires An analysis of inequality stemming
Read the full article…Online conference: How to pay for the climate transition – Registration open
Two day online event: 10 and 11 December / 9:00 – 12:30 PST / 14:00 – 17:30 GMT / 15:00 – 18:30 CEST / 19:30 – 23:00 IST As the climate crisis comes into ever sharper focus the question of how we pay for a just transition takes on an ever-greater urgency. Plenty of voices tell us that the costs
Read the full article…Online conference call for papers: Imperial Inequalities: States, Empires, Taxation
03 and 04 December 12:00 – 17:30 GMT (tbc) Co-organised with Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex and Julia McClure, University of Glasgow An analysis of inequality stemming from Imperialism and an exploration of reparation pathways Colonial histories remind us, time and again, that the poverty of what comes to be understood as the global south and the wealth of
Read the full article…Lessons learned from organising our first virtual conference
In December 2019, the Tax Justice Network held its first virtual conference, bringing together over 150 people from around the world from Portland to Sydney. Offices, living rooms and libraries on different continents were connected into one virtual space where speakers from the OECD, G24, IMF, World Bank and ICRICT discussed leading proposals to reform the international tax system. Following
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Technical and political analyses of the OECD tax reform Hosted by the Tax Justice Network on 11 December 2019 Read Alex Cobham’s blog post summarising the day’s discussions | Read our blog post about the conference format As urgent reshaping of the international tax system has risen up the geopolitical agenda, the OECD’s tax reforms announced in January 2019 are
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The challenges of tax justice do not exist in a vacuum. It is not an accident that billions of dollars are lost worldwide to tax avoidance and tax evasion each year. Nor is there anything random about the failure to tackle loopholes, or to move forward proven measures to improve transparency and accountability of the actors, or simply to maintain
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