We're pleased to say that the world is moving towards the registration of beneficial owners (BOs) who are the natural persons who ultimately own, control or benefit from legal persons (e.g. companies) and legal arrangements (e.g. trusts). If made public, these registries would increase financial … [Read more...]
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Open Cayman: Reputation, rhetoric and reality
By Alex Cobham https://youtu.be/2An-A4U00DU?t=23m16s Last week I took up the kind invitation of the government of Cayman to speak at their conference on 'Tax Transparency in the Global Financial Services Ecosystem', and to meet with staff from the monetary authority, statistics office and … [Read more...]
Australian beer drinker tax vs the world’s biggest gas companies
Is it fair that Australians pay more tax on one beer than the oil and gas industry pays in petroleum tax on offshore gas in a year? Might a 10% royalty guaranteeing annual revenue of between $1.3 billion and $2.8 billion be a better way to go? These are the issues rightly raised by a report just … [Read more...]
Tax haven blacklisting in Latin America
As governments (slowly) get to grips with the fact that tax havens are inflicting great harm on economies and democracies across the globe, facilitating mega amounts of tax dodging, and vast movements of criminal money by way of the secrecy services some of them offer, the question of our times is … [Read more...]
The Offshore Wrapper: the Panama Papers, one year on
Welcome to the Offshore Wrapper - your weekly update from TJN. Happy Paniversary! This week it's been one year since the Panama Papers were leaked, and a number of organisations around the world have been marking the occasion though the global week of action for tax justice. In London, … [Read more...]
New film: The Price of Fairness
This new film, which features TJN Director John Christensen, explores the notion that human beings have an evolutionary tendency towards selfish behaviour and asks whether the widespread dislike of inequality is rooted in the human need for cooperation. … [Read more...]
Work for us!
Tax Justice Network is recruiting a Head of Operations. The Head of Operations will lead TJN’s corporate functions, with a particular focus on Financial and Reporting Systems, Human Resources, Governance and Accountability policy, procedure implementation, contract management, risk assessment and … [Read more...]
Protesting PwC: Professionals Without Conscience
This week is the global week of action for tax justice and on Wednesday 5th April activists from the Tax Justice Network and Methodists for Tax Justice held a protest outside the London offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers. The global week of action for tax justice is happening one year after the … [Read more...]
Panama Papers: Who were the big players?
The Panama Papers revealed a systemic challenge to global governance, in which the big players are major banks, multinationals and the biggest financial centres of all. Unsurprisingly, much of the coverage of the Panama Papers focused on juicy, individual stories: political conflicts of interest, … [Read more...]
Germany moves forward on corporate transparency
The Bundesrat has today voted to recommend implementing a public register of the beneficial ownership of companies and trusts. Great news from Germany, as the country takes an important step forward towards corporate transparency. … [Read more...]
The problems with measuring tax systems
The following blog by TJN's Nicholas Shaxson (currently on a book writing sabbatical) was originally posted on the SPERI blog and is re-posted here with permission. In debates about tax policy we need to de-emphasise the role of economics and measurement and rekindle the politics … [Read more...]
Corruption in Africa: Misleading index and bribery by foreign companies
By Nico Beckert We are really pleased to publish this blog by Nico Beckert, which returns to a familiar theme for TJN. That is, how perceptions of corruption from Western experts too often hide the real perpetrators of corrupt acts. … [Read more...]
Ten years on, dodgy debt continues to threaten global chaos
In early September 2017, ten years after the collapse of UK bank Northern Rock, TJN will be publishing a special edition of Tax Justice Focus, guest edited by Professor Daniel Mügge (University of Amsterdam) which draws on fresh research from the EU-funded Enlighten programme. In this article … [Read more...]
Our March 2017 podcast: staggering numbers on the high cost of our finance sectors, plus more
In our March 2017 Taxcast: the high price we’re paying for our finance sectors – we look at staggering statistics showing how the US finance sector is a net drag on their economy. Also, as the British government initiates Brexit divorce negotiations to leave the EU, we discuss something they ought … [Read more...]
Call for papers (one week to go), plus studentship and job
Three pieces of news for tax justice researchers: Just one week left for abstract submission for our annual conference in July - last chance to get yours in for consideration! There's a fantastic research post being advertised, to work with Prof. Dariusz Wojcik on global financial … [Read more...]
