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Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights: International Strategy Meeting, April 2015
Mark your calendar for a groundbreaking International Strategy Meeting Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights Co-organized by the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, LatinDADD, Oxfam, Red de Justicia Fiscal en América Latina y el Caribe and Tax Justice Network TweetShare
TJN makes Global Top 50 – again!
Every picture tells a story, and this picture reflects the fact that TJN remains an agenda setter at national, regional and global levels. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #44
Shoot the Messenger Last week banks and accountants reacted to unwelcome revelations over their tax advice by attacking the messenger. Court appearances of two whistleblowers who revealed the scale of tax avoidance by international financial institutions went a long way to proving the adage: hell hath no fury like a scorned beancounter. TweetShare
Juncker fails to endorse demands for public registries of ownership
From the blog of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Jean-Claude Juncker appears to have distanced himself from making registers setting out the true owners of companies and other legal entities accessible to journalists and NGOs. The EU Commission president’s carefully worded position is contained in a letter he sent to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at City University in London this morning.
Read the full article…Event in London on the Domination of “The City”
The Domination of the City: Holding the City To Account. Tuesday, Dec 16th, 6.30-8.30 pm, Committee Room 16, House of Commons TJN has long argued that the scale and power of the City of London has induced a Finance Curse which afflicts the rest of the UK. In the coming session of the People’s Parliament at Westminster next Tuesday, a
Read the full article…On so-called “tax competition”
Someone has just posted an article about the need for multinational companies to protect their reputations from investigation of their tax affairs. The gist of the article is that MNCs need to step up their public relations effort to communicate their tax affairs more effectively. So we can all look forward to more corporate spin as they try to explain away
Read the full article…Dear Bundesfinanzminister Schäuble – please don’t block public registries
European transparency and anti-corruption campaigning organisations have sent the following letter to German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble requesting that his government should support demands by the European Parliament that information about the ultimate beneficial owners (the true, warm-blooded humans hiding behind shell companies with nominee directors and nominee shareholders) should be made available on public registry. The German government is
Read the full article…UK’s proposed “Google Tax”: jumping the gun?
Blog from Professor Sol Picciotto, Senior Adviser to TJN The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer / Finance Minister George Osborne (pictured) on Wednesday announced that he will introduce a `diverted profits’ tax next spring. His `autumn statement’ included this short announcement: “The government will go further to ensure that multinational companies pay the right amount of UK tax. Where multinationals
Read the full article…British comedian Russell Brand on tax havens and hypocrisy
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The UK tax havens and broken promises
By Rosie Sharpe, Money Laundering Campaigner at Global Witness. There’s been much progress recently in requiring companies to put the names of the people who own and control them – their so-called beneficial owners – into the public domain. This is really important to tackle the devastation caused by anonymous company ownership – for more information on the problem read
Read the full article…Why We Can’t Afford the Rich
“Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.” Le Père Goriot (1835) Honoré de Balzac [“The secret of the great fortunes without apparent cause is a forgotten crime, because it has been properly done.“] Columbia University sociologist Shamus Khan has observed that rich people think of themselves as “a collection
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #42
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most corrupt of them all? This week sees the release of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index. The report measures perceived levels of corruption in the public sector in 177 countries. Certain countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia are judged to be extremely corrupt whereas Europe and the States come out
Read the full article…Intermediaries survey – help shape our engagement with the professions
Read The Professions Issue of Tax Justice Focus here. Take part in the survey here. TweetShare
