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Norwegian Parliament votes for public registry of ownership
Guest blog from Sigrid Klæboe Jacobsen of TJN Norway On the 5th of June, a unanimous Norwegian Parliament voted for establishing a beneficial ownership registry. TweetShare
HSBC, money-laundering and Swiss regulatory deterrence
Number-crunching, à la Private Eye: the case of HSBC and its Swiss fine for “organisational deficiencies” in relation to money-laundering. $42.8 million Fine imposed on HSBC by Geneva authorities for “organisational deficiencies” related to money-laundering uncovered in #SwissLeaks More than $100 billion Amount held in accounts exposed in #SwissLeaks 0.04% Fine as a percentage of (revealed) assets under management
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #62
Europe: the final countdown…? A series of news stories came out this week about European Union proposals to tackle tax avoidance by multinational companies and secret offshore banking. Is this one reason why that well known tax haven the United Kingdom seems desperate to leave? TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #51
FIFA officials go down in a Chuck Blazer of glory FIFA executives gathering in Switzerland this week for the coronation of the Eternal Leader Sepp Blatter have had a nasty surprise. In a dawn raid Swiss and US police mounted a joint operation to arrest and deport several high ranking FIFA officials. TweetShare
The Price We Pay – London premiere on 19th June 2015
Harold Crooks’ (The Corporation, Surviving Progress) searing documentary indictment of offshore finance gets it UK premiere at the Open City Documentary Festival in London on 19th June, and will also be screened the following week at TJN’s discussion workshop at City University. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #60
Greetings from Liberland! This week’s Offshore Wrapper comes to you from Liberland, the world’s newest tax haven. TweetShare
Building the foundation for tax justice through human rights
Click here for a Spanish language version of the following statement, which comes out of the meeting between tax justice and human rights communities in Lima, Peru on 29th/30th April 2015. For years, the tax justice and human rights movements have worked along parallel paths to confront the rampant inequality and socio-economic deprivation that result from unfair fiscal policies and
Read the full article…TJN Report and Accounts for year ended 31 December 2014
Our audited accounts and the Director’s Report for year ended 31st December 2014 are available here. TweetShare
Taxcast Special: interview with film director Michael Winterbottom about The Emperor’s New Clothes
Michael Winterbottom’s powerful new film, The Emperor’s New Clothes, starring comedian Russell Brand and featuring several prominent tax justice campaigners is screening in cinemas now. You can also organise your own film screening here. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #58
Former IMF chief arrested for tax fraud The former head of the IMF, Rodrigo Rato, has been arrested in Spain over claims that he has illegally hidden wealth offshore to evade taxes. TweetShare
Comedian Russell Brand doorsteps Lord Rothermere over his non-dom status
Michael Winterbottom’s new film, starring Russell Brand and featuring us, gets its world premiere and goes on general release next week. Britain’s role as a tax haven features prominently, and in the following clip from the film Brand doorsteps Lord Rothermere, owner of the stridently anti-tax Daily Mail, about his non-dom status. This blogger watched the film’s final cut last
Read the full article…Tipping the balance: new global corporate law
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being secretly negotiated between the USA and the EU countries is widely criticised for opening the way for powerful corporations to challenge legitimate governments and use unaccountable arbitration processes to overturn democratically agreed policies. Were TTIP agreed, it could be used to block changes in tax policies, such as removal of unnecessary
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #57
The Offshore Game This week TJN released a major, ground-breaking study into offshore finance and sport. The report seeks to quantify the amount of money from offshore flowing into the UK professional football leagues. TweetShare
Register here for TJN’s annual discussion workshop at City University, London, 25th-26th June 2015
You can register here to attend TJN’s annual discussion workshop, held in association with the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs and City University, London, which will be held on 25th-26th June 2015. The workshop theme is Should Nation States Compete? The outline programme is published below (it may be subject to alteration). A fuller programme including paper abstracts is
Read the full article…World Premiere of The Emperor’s New Clothes – 21st April 2015
Michael Winterbottom’s latest film The Emperor’s New Clothes, starring comedian Russell Brand, and featuring a range of people familiar to the tax justice community, including TJN’s director John Christensen, gets it’s world premiere in British cinemas on 21st April. This blogger has already watched an early cut of the film and can vouch that this is a full throttle investigation
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