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Call for pro-bono research assistance on financial secrecy
Ahead of the publication of the results of the 2017 Financial Secrecy Index (FSI), the Tax Justice Network is reaching out to ask for your support in conducting pro-bono research. The FSI 2017 is expected to be published between October and December 2017. Since its first publication in 2009, the FSI has become the only global ranking of ‘tax havens’, which combines measures of both the secrecy
Read the full article…Press Release: Has the European Commission’s Apple decision signalled the beginning of the end of tax wars?
Press release – for immediate release Has the European Commission’s Apple decision signalled the beginning of the end of tax wars? Today, the European Commission has ruled that two tax rulings issued by the Irish tax administration on the tax treatment of Apple’s corporate profits represent illegal state aid under EU law. As a consequence, Apple has to pay up
Read the full article…Second high-level symposium on beneficial ownership transparency in Buenos Aires, August 31st/September 1st
Tax Justice Network together with Argentina’s Anti-Corruption Office, Argentina’s General Prosecution Office (Ministerio Público Fiscal), the Central Bank and other NGOs including Fundación SES, Red de Justicia Fiscal LAC, Latindadd and CIPCE will host a two-day event involving government and civil society concerning the need for registries of beneficial ownership (click here to see full program in spanish). The second edition of this event
Read the full article…Book review: Global Tax Governance – What is wrong with it and how to fix it
A guest blog by Rasmus Corlin Christensen, with his kind permission, originally published @FairSkat Blog One of the major 21st century challenges for politicians and polities at both the national, regional and international levels is the governance of ever-more global, mobile and flexible economic and financial flows. No more so than in the area of taxation, which looks likely to
Read the full article…The Financial Secrecy Index Methodological Review – Results of the Stakeholder Survey
The implications of financial secrecy offered by tax havens have never been higher on the agenda of both national and international policymakers. The difficulty in defining tax havens and the susceptibility to political pressure on processes of drawing up lists of havens led the Tax Justice Network to create the Financial Secrecy Index (FSI). Conceived in 2007 and published on
Read the full article…The G20 and OECD tax haven blacklist proposals risk becoming another whitewash
Press Release: For immediate release, July 22, 2016 The G20 and OECD tax haven blacklist proposals risk becoming another whitewash This weekend G20 Finance Ministers from the G20 countries will meet in China. One of the items on their agenda will be to agree the criteria for identifying non-cooperative jurisdictions with respect to tax transparency, which the OECD has been mandated
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