About Luke Holland
Join the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice!
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, international tax abuse was pillaging government coffers all over the world of resources desperately needed to fund essential public services like health care. Now that the world is struggling to tackle both the direct health impacts of the crisis and the economic fallout that has come with it, confronting abusive international tax practices is
Read the full article…Taking Panama to task: Women’s rights trampled by financial secrecy
Just over four years have passed since a huge archive of secret documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, containing wide-ranging details of fraud, tax evasion and other illegal financial schemes, were leaked to a German newspaper provoking a global scandal. The public outcry that followed embroiled political leaders, celebrities and business titans from across the world, while the Panamanian
Read the full article…Covid-19: An opportunity for structural reforms to create a people-centred economic system
TJN-AFRICA STATEMENT This statement from Tax Justice Network-Africa, reproduced below, can be accessed in pdf format here. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed systemic inequalities in the current social, political and economic systems. African countries are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the impacts of the pandemic as a result of decades of privatisation and austerity measures resulting in underfunding of social
Read the full article…US launch event for Financial Secrecy Index 2020
Join Tax Justice Network and the FACT Coalition for a discussion of the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index and relevant US legislation. As Congress considers measures to combat financial secrecy and end the formation of anonymous companies in the United States, the Tax Justice Network and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition ask you to join them on Capitol
Read the full article…Videos: Touring London, the capital of secrecy
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit will become a reality in just a few days time. January 31st will be a historic moment, for both Europe and the United Kingdom, marked by jubilant celebrations in some circles and profound misgivings in others. One very small but extremely powerful grouping within British society is likely to be delighted
Read the full article…The Brexit Tax Haven Walking Tour
Tax Justice Network and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice cordially invite you to ‘The Brexit Tax Haven Walking Tour’. The tour will visit key sites in the City of London where three leading experts from the UK and the Global South will explain the imminent threat to developing economies posed by the ‘Singapore on the Thames’ strategy. It will
Read the full article…Austrian parliament seizes opportunity for public country-by-country reporting
Just two weeks ago, a resolution on country-by-country reporting at the EU Competitiveness Council missed the qualified majority needed by just one vote. Among those who voted against the resolution was Austria’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Elisabeth Udolf-Strobl. But only a few days later the Austrian Parliament committed to ending its long-standing opposition and promised “to prevent further delay” in
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