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Recovering Africa’s Stolen Assets: from Jersey to Kenya
An interesting event has come to our attention that we’d like to share, taking place at Chatham House in London. Full event details here. Recovering Africa’s Stolen Assets: Lessons from the Windward Trading Case A report by the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery programme found that, while nearly $1.4 billion in suspected corrupt assets were frozen in OECD countries between
Read the full article…Worst fears realised? Jersey shares ‘old’ records of trusts and foundations
Life’s full of surprises, some pleasant, some not so much. Imagine you had undeclared offshore assets when the global financial crisis struck, and you’ve nervously watched the world move towards TJN ‘s proposal for multilateral, automatic information exchange. Until now you’ve probably felt ok, and that you had a choice between two moves. Either you could say ‘Ok, the game’s up
Read the full article…The 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries in Buenos Aires
As we mentioned recently on our blog the 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries took place in Buenos Aires on June 21st-22nd at Argentina’s Central Bank. This was another successful event attended by the Tax Justice Network’s Andres Knobel, who reports back to us here on the dicussions there: TweetShare
Britain’s first tax justice election? Our June 2017 Podcast
In our June 2017 Taxcast we ask – has the UK just had its first tax justice general election? Why was economic debate around the election so ill-informed? Are we seeing a popular shift towards tax justice in the UK and in the USA? Is this the beginning of the end of our long austerity winter? How much do people
Read the full article…The 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries, Argentina
The 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries will take place in Buenos Aires on June 21st-22nd at Argentina’s Central Bank. It is co-hosted by TJN with Fundacion SES, Argentina’s AML Prosecutor (PROCELAC), the Anti-Corruption Agency and Security Ministry. We blogged about this event last year here and we’ll report back to you once again this year on the highlights. TweetShare
EU Parliament multinational transparency vote introduces ‘commercial confidentiality’ loophole
Yesterday the European Parliament held a crucial tax justice vote on making multinational companies with an annual net turnover of 750 million euros and above publicly report their activities, structures and tax payments on a country-by-country basis. That would mean no more secrecy around those things that affect the welfare of you, me and the rest of the world on
Read the full article…Women’s Rights and Tax Justice: Conference in Bogotá, Colombia
On June 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2017 the Tax Justice Network will be taking part in an important conference of people coming together in Bogotá to discuss the little-understood and under-reported impacts of political decisions on taxation and financial secrecy on women and girls around the world. Tax justice and gender is a key and developing research and campaigning
Read the full article…Whistleblower Ruedi Elmer vs. the Swiss ‘Justice’ System
We’ve regularly covered the battles of whistleblower Rudolf Elmer against the Swiss “justice” system. As we’ve said before, and as has so often been the case with those brave enough to risk all to challenge injustice and corruption, the bank was the criminal, not Rudolf Elmer. He wrote a guest blog for us here on how Switzerland corrupted its courts
Read the full article…Technology and online beneficial ownership registries: 21st century transparency
At the Global Tax Transparency Summit meeting held in London in December 2016, a senior official from the tax haven of Jersey claimed that one of the reasons for not making their registry of company ownership available to public scrutiny was the lack of a global standard for public company registries. TJN’s John Christensen, himself a former senior official of
Read the full article…Newly launched Tax Justice UK assesses party manifestos in UK’s ‘snap’ general election
We’d like to share with you a press release from the newly launched Tax Justice UK for immediate release: TweetShare
Do Anti-Money Laundering requirements solve ‘fake residency’ concerns?
Do Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements solve the Common Reporting Standard’s “fake residency” concerns for automatic exchange of banking information? Short answer: we wish… Here’s a longer answer: In response to our recent blog about the use of fake residencies to avoid the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard on automatic exchange of banking information – where we proposed extra questions by the
Read the full article…Britain’s Second Empire: our May 2017 Tax Justice Network Podcast
In the May 2017 Taxcast: We talk to film director Michael Oswald about his new film The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire. Listen for details on how you can see the film. Also, we discuss booming Sweden’s ‘reverse-Trumpism’: its economy grew almost twice as fast as the US last year – and it wasn’t achieved through cutting taxes. Plus: the
Read the full article…The Price of Entry: residence and citizenship by investment around the world
Many thousands of people a year risk their lives to cross borders into what they hope will be countries of greater safety, opportunity and quality of life. Yet for others who are wealthy enough, the borders are open. For those who can pay, nationality, residency and freedom of movement are theirs. There are many concerns around the issues of residency
Read the full article…Our May 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de mayo 2017
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In this month’s programme: A new government in Ecuador: will President Lenin Moreno continue Rafael Correa’s policies against tax havens?
Read the full article…Jainism and Ethical Finance
“The financial crisis of 2008 has led to a re-evaluation of the role of financial institutions and their relationship with the wider economy and society. There is an increased questioning of both the conduct of business itself and the principles behind commercial and financial activities. Yet non-western voices have been notably absent from this debate, as have alternatives to the
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