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Symposium: Tax Justice and Human Rights, McGill University, Montreal
Tax Justice and Human Rights A Collaborative Symposium for Researchers, Students and Activists TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Nigeria – failed state? Recently Nigeria almost doubled its GDP in a day, showing that strong growth in a time of global economic malaise is still possible – on paper at least. TweetShare
Submission to OECD on transfer pricing and developing countries
The BEPS Monitoring Group, which TJN took the lead in establishing last year in the wake of the OECD’s ground-breaking initiative, has just published this report: BMG Submission to OECD on Transfer Pricing Comparability Data and Developing Countries. This report responds to the OECD Report on this subject of 11th March 2014, prepared at the request of the G20. Its findings are
Read the full article…The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Elephant in the room The Africa-EU Summit took place this weekend. The high-level event saw the heads of state and government from Africa and the EU discussing “investing in people, prosperity and peace”. TweetShare
European Investment Bank exposes “hypocritical nature of western financial institutions”
The Guardian has published an article, picked up by media across the world, about the NGO follow-up to revelations in 2011 that the European Investment Bank had lent money to the Zambian firm Mopani Copper Mines (a.k.a. Glencore) which avoided paying tens of millions of dollars in local tax. At that time the EIB suspended loans to Glencore and announced
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The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Tax avoidance in Africa – worse than we thought TweetShare
New book: The Political Economy of Offshore Jurisdictions
This new book adds further insights into the political economy of offshore, raising questions about why offshore has been off-limits for serious political discussion for so many decades and opening up discussion around offshore secrecy. A welcome addition to the emerging debate. TweetShare
Event: Is global governance of finance fit for purpose?
Last year our colleagues at New Rules for Global Finance published a ground-breaking report on the governance and accountability of the leading financial rule-setting institutions, including those covering international tax cooperation such as the G20, the OECD, the UN Tax Committee and the IMF. Their report is available here. TweetShare
Tax Justice Focus 2014 – the COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REPORTING edition
This edition of Tax Justice Focus is guest edited by Richard Murphy, the originator of the idea of country-by-country reporting. A little more than a decade after he first began to develop the concept, Murphy has brought together authors from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), from Global Witness and from
Read the full article…TJN launches new APP and a Take Action page
As you can see, the Tax Justice Network has recently set up a new website, which we hope you’ll agree is an improvement on the old one. Now we have two more pieces of exciting news. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
Our Weekly Offshore Wrapper by George Turner TweetShare
Exclusive interview with OECD on TJN’s report on AIE proposals
International Tax Review has just published an exclusive interview with the OECD’s Pascal Saint Amans concerning our new report on the proposals for a new international standard for automatic information exchange. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
Our weekly Offshore Wrapper, by George Turner The end of decency For years the attitude towards Russia from major offshore financial centres such as the City of London has been: “Give us your money, we don’t care where it comes from.” TweetShare
IMF launches consultation on tax ‘spillover’
In a welcome step, the International Monetary Fund has announced it will be researching the consequences of existing and proposed changes to corporation tax regimes for lower income “source” countries. TweetShare
