How Zambia Loses Billions of Dollars in illicit Outflows, Fueling Excessive Debt and Low Foreign Reserves Lusaka Times Equality and redistribution: necessary reforms in tax systems Latindadd (In Spanish) The Danske Bank Money Laundering Trail The American Interest Denmark shakes up watchdog … [Read more...]
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Gibraltar and the battle against the European Commission for their tax ruling practice
Guest Blog Prof. Dr. Patricia Lampreave, EU tax and state aid expert On 19 December 2018, the European Commission issued a final decision on the Gibraltar tax system. It´s a highly controversial decision and it's the first time that two different decisions were coupled into one. Following a … [Read more...]
Ineffective tax incentives on profits heavily used by African nations compared to European nations, study finds
Despite growing evidence on the ineffectiveness of profit based tax incentives, African nations on average offer three profit based tax incentives for every one cost based tax incentive whereas European nations on average offer a near one to one ratio of tax incentive types, the Tax Justice Network … [Read more...]
Edition 12 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 12# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twelth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for … [Read more...]
UK next in the UN hot seat over impact of City of London, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories tax policies on women’s rights
Guest blog Kathleen A. Lahey Professor of Law, Queen’s University Non-Executive Director, Tax Justice Network Advocates for gender equality in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in any of its three Crown Dependencies and fourteen Overseas Territories have a unique … [Read more...]
Brussels celebrates ‘tax freedom’ for billionaires on 4th January 2019
Our colleagues in Belgium have decided to celebrate the fourth of January as the day when billionaires in Belgium will have earned sufficient to pay their tax bill for the whole of 2019. In an era of preposterous inequality, social fragmentation and political crisis, what's not to celebrate? … [Read more...]
Landmark moments for tax justice from 2018 worth celebrating
From conference fringe talks to top of global agendas, tax justice issues have come along way since the turn of the millennium. Progress made in recent years, including the milestones reached in 2017, was held and built upon in 2018, cementing tax justice as more than just a fad –it’s a wholesale … [Read more...]
How to assess the effectiveness of automatic exchange of banking information?
In December 2018 the OECD’s Global Forum published the new terms of reference to assess compliance with the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS) for automatic exchange of information. Two weeks later, the EU Commission published a report about automatic exchange of information within the EU. Both … [Read more...]
The UK must face up to the gender inequality it enables internationally
Co-written by the Tax Justice Network and Oxfam GB The United Kingdom is currently being reviewed by the United Nations (UN) on how well it is meeting its commitments on women's gender equality rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women … [Read more...]
Research fellow in financial secrecy, for new research grant
We're delighted to announce the start of a 'Does Transparency bring Cleanliness? Offshore Financial Secrecy Reform and Corruption Controlnew', a Global Integrity-DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-DFID-ACE) research project with Dr Daniel Haberly of the University of Sussex. And that means we're … [Read more...]
The gilets jaunes and how NOT to implement an environmental tax: the Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 podcast
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: time's running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, speaking to the authors of new report A Climate of Fairness: Environmental Taxation … [Read more...]
Unbelievable! The Ethical Failure at the Heart of Corporate Tax Avoidance
In this year-end guest blog, Tristan Shirley explores the belief system that underpins tax avoidance by multinational corporations and reflects on the ethical failures revealed by their unbelievable behaviour. Almost every commuter on the train is reading the free paper. There is a surprised … [Read more...]
GRI invites feedback on its first global tax transparency standard
A new draft Standard on tax and payments to governments was published today by the GRI, the global standard setter for sustainability reporting. This is the first global standard designed to help organisations understand and communicate the impact of their tax strategies on the economies and … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, diciembre 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download 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 … [Read more...]
The US can be blacklisted under the OECD’s new rules due to a forgotten commitment
We recently criticised the report the OECD sent this month to the G20 which hinted that 15 (mostly small) jurisdictions are at risk of being blacklisted. We reiterated our concerns over the new OECD criteria to identify tax havens, particularly because of one arbitrary caveat, which looks like it … [Read more...]
