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 tenemos un nuevo … [Read more...]
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Is financial secrecy always bad?
The Tax Justice Network has long been an opponent of financial secrecy. Wealthy oligarchs, criminals, and looters have increasingly been paying lawyers, accountants and bankers to set up secrecy vehicles such as trusts, foundations and shell companies to hide their ownership of all sorts of assets … [Read more...]
Watershed data indicates more than a trillion dollars of corporate profit smuggled into tax havens
This blog is also available in French and German. UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands – the “axis of tax avoidance” – are responsible for 72 per cent of global tax losses Analysis of new OECD data published yesterday, on the basis of a reporting standard developed by the Tax … [Read more...]
Pandemic of tax injustice in Ukraine
The Ukrainian government took the pandemic as an opportunity to further shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor, while Tax Justice Network's new illicit financial flows tool confirms the country is vulnerable to profits shifting to tax havens and bank deposits outflows. Guest blog from … [Read more...]
Moving beyond poverty begins with tax justice
The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Professor Philip Alston has concluded his missions to observe the state of human rights in various countries, with strong condemnation of the failures to eradicate poverty. And he begins and concludes his final … [Read more...]
Exploring UK companies’ legal ownership chains to detect red flags and verify beneficial ownership information: Part 1
By Andres Knobel and Oliver Seabarron The Tax Justice Network in cooperation with the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam (@UvACORPNET) and the Data Analytics and Society Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Sheffield (@DataCDT) has mined and applied advanced analytics to … [Read more...]
Generation Equality – Calling young feminists for tax justice
The call for youth-led organisations and movements to lead the Action Coalitions for Generation Equality has been reopened by UN Women. Deadline 19 July 2020. UN Women is part of the United Nation and is the overall convener of the Action Coalitions. The Action Coalitions cover six … [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...]
Edition 30 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast #30 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the 30th 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: Un nouvel outil pour traquer la vulnérabilité aux flux financier Illicites, édition 17
Here’s the 17th edition of Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa produced and presented by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. Nous sommes fiers de partager avec vous cette nouvelle émission de radio/podcast du Réseau pour la Justice Fiscale, Tax Justice … [Read more...]
Beneficial ownership transparency in Africa: The state of play in 2020
Leak after leak has confirmed what African citizens have long suspected: the elite hide their actions and identities to loot state resources and reduce taxes owed. A new study published today by the Tax Justice Network Africa and Tax Justice Network examines one of the steps African countries are … [Read more...]
Carbon Taxes Can Be Progressive: Myth-busting and Mainstreaming Carbon Taxes
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Jacqueline Cottrell, in which she explains that while carbon taxes were once at the centre of discussions about tackling climate crisis, aggressive lobbying by fossil … [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...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #14: De onde virá o dinheiro para salvar vidas?
Existem “pílulas tributárias” para uma retomada econômica mais sustentável e redistributiva. O episódio #14 do É da sua conta receita quatro “pílulas” que podem fortalecer o orçamento público para que governos tomem decisões justas no enfrentamento da crise, priorizando o combate à pobreza … [Read more...]
Seeking a tax justice podcast commentator and consultant in Arabic
The Tax Justice Network produces five monthly podcasts: the Taxcast in English, Justicia ImPositiva in Spanish, Impôts et Justice Sociale in French, É da sua conta in Portuguese, and our Arabic podcast الجباية ببساطة Our monthly podcasts are aimed at ordinary citizens, campaigners and … [Read more...]
