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Launch of the African Platform to Protect Whistleblowers
Today the Plateforme de Protection des Lanceurs d’Alerte en Afrique (PPLAAF) will be officially launched during a press conference in Dakar. We’re sharing the details with you here: TweetShare
Good news from Slovakia: light cast onto shell companies
Second time lucky? About a year ago in Slovakia some opposition politicians pushed hard for a promising law to shed light onto anonymous ownership through shell companies. The Tax Justice Network supported their efforts by writing a letter to the Prime Minster at the time. Despite widespread public anger about corrupt practices, the law was blocked by the legislature. Now,
Read the full article…Politicians and their tax returns: a new project from Finance Uncovered
We’re pleased to share this information on a very important new project – the Tax Disclosure Project – just launched by our friends at Finance Uncovered, a project originally set up by the Tax Justice Network. The project is requesting that politicians around the world disclose their tax returns, and is inspired by the incredible work of journalist Umar Cheema of
Read the full article…An Alternative Approach to Taxing Multinational Companies: new book
We’re pleased to announce this latest important book which you can download and read for free here. We’re sharing here a blog written by Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network, originally published here by the International Centre for Tax and Development: TweetShare
A great day for tax justice: coming closer to ending anonymous ownership
Today will be remembered as a milestone for progress on tax justice. We’d like to think of it as the first steps into a true post-#PanamaPapers era when real, concrete action was taken by Members of the European Parliament towards achieving financial transparency in the public interest. Today we’re suddenly much closer to ending anonymous ownership of companies and trusts
Read the full article…New book: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management
There’s a new book out that looks very interesting reading from Professor Jason Sharman with the rather catchy title: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption. It has been reviewed here in The Economist. We haven’t read it yet, but this study of kleptocracy looks worth reading, and the amounts of money stolen are
Read the full article…Our February 2017 podcast: Financial transaction taxes to protect us from our finance sectors plus more
In the February 2017 Taxcast, our monthly podcast: how financial transaction taxes can protect us from finance sectors dragging our economies down. Plus: the Swiss referendum – taxpayers have refused to pick up the tab for corporate tax ‘reforms’. What does that mean for one of the world’s biggest tax haven players? Also, we discuss President Trump’s valentine gift for
Read the full article…How could a global public database help to tackle corporate tax avoidance?
A new research report published today looks at the current state and future prospects of a global public database of corporate accounts. We are cross posting this OpenDemocracy article written by Jonathan Gray, with permission from our partners on the open data for tax justice project at Open Knowledge International. You can read more about that about in our blog
Read the full article…Open Data For Tax Justice: the creation of a public database of country-by-country reporting data
How much tax do multinational companies pay in your country? Leading tax justice campaigners (including the Tax Justice Network) and open data specialists are working on helping you find out with their open data for tax justice project. Today they’re publishing a white paper entitled What Do They Pay? which sets out a roadmap for the creation of a global
Read the full article…Our February 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de febrero 2017
Welcome to this month’s 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 radiofonica! (abajo en castellano). In this month’s programme: TweetShare
Trusts – Weapons of Mass Injustice: new Tax Justice Network report
It is a fact that the trust laws of some tax havens openly promote illegality. The reality that some tax havens will not enforce foreign laws (e.g. ensuring non-recognition of foreign laws and judgements that favoured legitimate heirs and former spouses) is even publicly advertised by some offshore service providers, not on the deep web like drugs and illegal weapons,
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s webinar on the next Financial Secrecy Index
The Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index ranks jurisdictions according to their secrecy and the scale of their offshore financial activities. It’s a politically neutral ranking, the world’s most effective tool for understanding global financial secrecy, tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, and illicit financial flows or capital flight. The Tax Justice Network is working hard on the results of the
Read the full article…Panama Papers Committee investigates in London UK, home to 2,000 ‘enablers’
UPDATE: 15 February 2017, London – Bloomberg has reported that the chairman of the EU’s Panama Papers inquiry has criticised the UK Treasury for refusing to meet with its investigatory team during the recent fact-finding visit to London. Read more here. Last year the Panama Papers scandal shook the world and lifted the lid on murky offshore dealings in spectacular
Read the full article…Transparency, Lobbying and Fake News: how transparent are think tanks?
Never has it been more critical to understand think tanks and their activities which often shape the news and are highly influential. But how transparent are they about who funds them? And how confident can we be in the integrity of their research and their intellectual independence? The organisation Transparify provides the first-ever global rating of the financial transparency of
Read the full article…Tax Justice and Women’s Rights, global days of action are coming
The Tax Justice Network is supporting global partners in highlighting the impact of regressive tax policies and financial secrecy on women’s fundamental human rights, something we campaign on and write about. Here’s some information about the #TaxJustice for Women’s Rights Global Days of Action. The dates for your diary are 8-24 March 2017. TweetShare
