The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston is making an official visit to the United States to investigate the links between the growing phenomenon of poverty and human rights deprivations. This comes at a time when the current administration is working on passing … [Read more...]
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4 million Canadians form a new Coalition for Tax Fairness
Campaigns for tax justice are gathering pace around the world. Tax consciousness is taking its place at the heart of political debate, where it belongs. We're pleased to share this week's news of the newly formed Coalition for Tax Fairness, which is made up of groups representing over 4 million … [Read more...]
Our September 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de septiembre 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 the September 2017 … [Read more...]
President Trump visits La-La-Laffer Land
Taken as a whole, the tax plans just announced by US President Donald Trump, which include abolition of the inheritance tax, could represent the largest tax cut for billionaires and millionaires in US history. According to the President, this will stimulate growth and job creation. There's no … [Read more...]
Trump wins in a corrupted economy: welcome to #Truxit
So, Donald J Trump has won the US elections. Here's what we'd have liked to have been able to write today: “The United States will have its first woman president – instead of the first president for years who refused to publish his tax returns; whose business affairs consistently demonstrate an … [Read more...]
Panama: the making of a tax haven and rogue state
Panama is attracting much media attention at the moment, and for good reason. Earlier this month we blogged on a BBC Hard Talk interview with Panama's Vice President which referred to our comment that Panama gives "the middle finger" to the rest of the world when it comes to tackling financial … [Read more...]
Does Trump belong to an offshore company?
Good question. … [Read more...]
Tax Haven USA – part two: Rothschilds (nearly) confirms Tax Justice Network position
One year ago, Tax Justice Network published a blog detailing the ways in which the USA is steadily turning itself into a vortex-shaped hole in the global financial system. Others have picked up on the theme, including The Economist which rightly labelled the USA as "the mega-haven". Now, … [Read more...]
Tax Haven USA – part one: 12 New York law firms advise on how to move dirty money to the USA
12 New York law firms filmed suggesting how to move suspect money into the US & avoid detection Ground-Breaking exposé by Global Witness shows how the corrupt can exploit anonymously-owned companies … [Read more...]
Three Tax Whistleblowers Who Changed The Game
The following blog was first published as part of a longer article in the Whistleblower Edition of Tax Justice Focus (available here). The article was authored by Professor William Byrnes, Associate Dean (Special Projects) Texas A&M University Law. A lawsuit filed by Daniel Schlicksup, a … [Read more...]
Hey Walmart, it’s time to pay your taxes
A groundbreaking report released Wednesday, June 17 (12:01am) by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), and researched by the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), reveals that Walmart has built a vast, undisclosed network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #49
The African Union gets tough on illicit financial flows African Union leaders meeting in Ethiopia last weekend adopted a report from Thabo Mbeki’s UN High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows. … [Read more...]
Tax haven film world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
We have just heard that Harold Crook's (Surviving Progress) new film, entitled The Price We Pay, is to receive its world première on 5th September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). … [Read more...]
Love and Taxes – the live show and forthcoming major motion picture
We at TJN hear endless bleating - mainly from tax abusers and their pet news outlets - about the horrors of tax. We certainly don't often hear it FOR tax. … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: A week in tax justice
The Offshore Wrapper is written by George Turner Elephant in the room The Africa-EU Summit took place this weekend. The high-level event saw the heads of state and government from Africa and the EU discussing “investing in people, prosperity and peace”. … [Read more...]
