In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast, we go on a reparational justice journey and speak to the Council for World Mission about their Legacies of Slavery project. Plus: austerity's out, public investment is now in?! We discuss the IMF's hypocritical turn around … [Read more...]
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VIDEO: Winning the Fight for Tax Justice – how do we make multinationals pay?
Yes, we can build an open and transparent tax system that works fairly for everyone. Do you know how multinationals shift their profits to dodge their taxes and how we can stop them? Our beautifully illustrated new videos tell you how, narrated in five different languages by our tax justice podcast … [Read more...]
‘Competition’ is killing us: the Tax Justice Network podcast, September 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How a competition lawyer's eyes were opened to the dangers of letting companies get too big and form monopolies which act against our interests. We talk to Michelle Meagher about her book just out: Competition is Killing … [Read more...]
Systemic racism and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, July 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast we bring you part 2 on how tax justice can help address systemic racism in the US: Author Shawn Rochester, (The Black Tax: the cost of being Black in America) does some number crunching on the historic denial of equality … [Read more...]
It’s got to be automatic: Trillions of dollars offshore revealed by Tax Justice Network policy success
This is a moment, in these strange times, to celebrate an ongoing success in the history of the tax justice movement. Automatic, multilateral exchange of information on financial accounts is the A of our ABC of tax transparency. It has been a campaign aim since our inception in the early 2000s, as … [Read more...]
Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, June 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: We look at the United States and how tax justice can help address systemic racism.Plus: did you know Britain's slave owners compensation loan was only settled by the government in 2015 on behalf of taxpayers? Faulkner … [Read more...]
Nixon-era laws have shaped western racism and protected ‘enablers’ of financial crimes
This guest blog written by Dr Mary Alice Young of the University of the West England proposes that in the aftermath of Covid-19, Western governments must redress antiquated and inherently racist organised crime control laws By Dr Mary Alice Young* Organised crime is not homogeneous, and is … [Read more...]
Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Taxation: Two Sides of the Same Carbon Coin
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Laura Merrill, in which she outlines how massive direct and indirect state subsidies have overwhelmingly distorted energy markets to favour fossil-fuel consumption, … [Read more...]
Tax collection, a labour of love: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2020
In the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: we cover the story the mainstream media aren’t telling you – how governments around the world are undermining our tax collection services. We look at how the South Africa Revenue Service was established in very challenging times to become … [Read more...]
A “world fit for money laundering” must end in the post Covid-19 era
We're sharing here the details of explosive new research on "the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry." This new research was carried out by our senior … [Read more...]
Financial Secrecy Index: who are the world’s worst offenders? The Tax Justice Network podcast special, February 2020
In this special extended Taxcast, Naomi Fowler takes you on a whistle-stop guided tour on an express train around the world with some of the Tax Justice Network team, looking at the worst offenders selling secrecy services according to the latest Financial Secrecy Index results What can nations can … [Read more...]
The financialisation of child and elderly care: the Tax Justice Network December 2019 podcast
This month we ask - what's going on with our pre-school childcare and elderly care home services? We take a long hard look at the financialisation of our services and what we can do about it. Plus: the Conservative party in the UK has won a major victory in the general elections. With major … [Read more...]
Global Day of Action: digging the dirt on extractives
As global capitalism continues to lurch from one crisis to the next, massive levels of tax abuse and avoidance are robbing governments of the resources they need to provide basic social services while also contributing to economic instability, fuelling gender inequalities and undermining human … [Read more...]
New website: massive rise in tax injustice in the US
Gabriel Zucman has developed a high profile creating new data on tax systems, tax havens and inequality. To coincide with the release of his new book The Triumph of Injustice: How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay, he has launched a new, user-friendly website, Tax Justice Now. It's … [Read more...]
Immigration as reparations: the Tax Justice Network July 2019 podcast
In this month’s July 2019 podcast we speak with multiple award winning Suketu Mehta about his new book: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto on the fastest way to fix global inequalities and injustices. (A UK version of the book will be published in August 2019.) Plus: we discuss … [Read more...]
