Welcome to this month’s 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 radiofónico! (Ahora también estamos en iTunes y … [Read more...]
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We ran a beneficial ownership webinar for over 260 officials from Latin America
On 26 August, together with the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), we hosted a webinar in Spanish for Latin American authorities involved in beneficial ownership transparency. The Spanish webinar was based on the first and second set of presentations on beneficial ownership … [Read more...]
A UN Tax Convention – then a U-turn
Last night, the United Nations published a document with a ground-breaking tax justice recommendation for the global meeting of ministers of finance which takes place this Tuesday 8 September. But just a few hours later, the document was replaced with another, claiming to be the 'advance unformatted … [Read more...]
Murky Ghana gold deal raises questions about Jersey
Update: the previous blog had the incorrect link for the Angola-Russia deal. The correct link has been inserted. Update: Sept 28. IMANI Africa: 10 most alarming problems with Agyapa Royalties deal Update: there's now a petition you can sign and share, available here. From Ghana Business … [Read more...]
Join the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice!
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, international tax abuse was pillaging government coffers all over the world of resources desperately needed to fund essential public services like health care. Now that the world is struggling to tackle both the direct health impacts of the crisis and the … [Read more...]
How ‘Digital Trade’ rules would make it harder for lower-income countries to tax or regulate the digital economy
International tax rules and international trade rules are unfair to lower-income countries: that is not only well known, but unsurprising. Rules are generally set by the most powerful parties at the table. What is more, the tax rules and the trade rules interact, with trade rules frequently … [Read more...]
Edition 32 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast #32 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the 32nd edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: $31,5 milliards: La lourde facture des Flux Financiers Illicites en matière commerciale au Cameroun, édition 19
Pour cette 19ème édition de votre podcast « Impôts et Justice Sociale », nous revenons sur la taxation de l’économie numérique au sein de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO), grâce à une thèse de doctorat rédigée par Aboubakar Nacanabo. Le document se … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #16: Sem democracia não há justiça fiscal
Ainda que existam medidas justas para enfrentar a crise da pandemia, que intensificou as crises econômica, social e climática, alguns governos não as colocam em prática. O que está faltando? A adequada distribuição econômica e de poder, que, “traduzida” para princípios de justiça fiscal são duas … [Read more...]
Dubious arguments to defend secrecy, even as automatic information exchange booms
Updated: an earlier version of this blog incorrectly referred to the legal opinion of the Advocate General as belonging to Luxembourg rather than to the European Court of Justice. For years, we have advocated the automatic exchange of bank account information across borders. The previous “on … [Read more...]
Germany’s new statistics on exchange of banking information: a trove of useful data and clues
For some years now, countries have been sharing information about bank accounts held by each others’ residents, implementing “automatic exchange of bank account information” under the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS). (This is what we called for many years ago, and were scorned at the time for … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: Nuevo orden internacional y Coronavirus
Welcome to this month’s 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 radiofónico! (Ahora también estamos en iTunes y … [Read more...]
Judge ruling: “You are no Mother Teresa and no one goes to Cayman for philanthropic reasons”
Indian court case sees through the sham of discretionary trusts In a recent ruling from India, a court found that taxpayer Renu Thikamdas Tharani had to pay taxes on several million dollars’ worth held in a bank account in Switzerland. Tharani claimed not to own the account, but to merely be a … [Read more...]
Developing countries, take note: how much money do your residents hold in Australia, the most transparent country on bank account information
Australia has become the first country to publish statistics on automatic exchange of information for all jurisdictions, especially those that cannot join the automatic exchange system. Here’s what they reveal and why it has more potential than statistics published by the Bank for International … [Read more...]
Online conference call for papers: Imperial Inequalities: States, Empires, Taxation
03 and 04 December 12:00 – 17:30 GMT (tbc) Co-organised with Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex and Julia McClure, University of Glasgow An analysis of inequality stemming from Imperialism and an exploration of reparation pathways Colonial histories remind us, time and again, that … [Read more...]
