The Tax Justice Network has raised the alarm on the UK's regression into tax havenry The UK missed out on collecting £2.5 billion a year in corporate tax from multinational corporations due to the UK government failing to exercise a 2016 tax transparency law designed to prevent billions in … [Read more...]
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Edition 15 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: édition 15 de podcast Francophone: L’aide hypocrite du G20 à l’Afrique face au Coronavirus
Here’s the 15th edition of Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa 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 Network produite en … [Read more...]
Edition 28 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast #28 الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-eighth 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 … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #12: Uma nova economia pós-coronavírus
Quais são os rumos para a sociedade global, vencida a pandemia? Como não repetir erros de outras crises e apostar em novos paradigmas? Estas reflexões são feitas por uma diversidade de economistas: Laura Carvalho, Pedro Rossi, Áurea Mouzinho, Marco Antonio Rocha, Inocência Mapisse, Thomaz Jensen, … [Read more...]
A “world fit for money laundering” must end in the post Covid-19 era
We're sharing here the details of explosive new research on "the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry." This new research was carried out by our senior … [Read more...]
EU loses over $27 billion in corporate tax a year to UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Netherlands
"Axis of tax avoidance” cost EU 12 times budget of ERC, Europe’s Nobel prizes winning science body EU member states are losing over $17 billion in corporate tax a year from US firms abusing the law to shift their profits into the UK, Switzerland and Luxembourg, where corporate tax rates in … [Read more...]
New group to promote beneficial ownership verification pilots around the world
On 2 April 2020 the Tax Justice Network co-organised together with the Financial Transparency Coalition, Transparency International, Global Witness, Global Financial Integrity, Open Ownership, The B Team and the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), the first … [Read more...]
Healthy economies: the Tax Justice Network podcast, April 2020
In the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast, the Taxcast: from the ashes of the coronavirus crisis how can we build a better economic and socially just system that works for all of us? The pandemic also exposes the pile-up of unaddressed crises which we must also fix. A transcript is available here … [Read more...]
Fiança ou resgate? Especialistas da Tax Justice Network elaboraram teste em cinco etapas para governos aplicarem antes de resgatar empresas diante da #Covid-19
This is a Portuguese translation of the Tax Justice Network's proposal of a 5-step test for coronavirus bailouts. A Spanish translation is available here (external website). Dinamarca, Polônia, França, Argentina já anunciaram e outros países europeus estão estudando não auxiliar empresas que … [Read more...]
Bail, or bailout? Tax experts publish 5-step test for Covid19 business bailouts
A Portuguese translation of this article is available here. A Spanish translation is available here (external website). Following bans from Denmark, Poland and Argentina on companies registered in tax havens from receiving Covid19 bailouts[1], the Tax Justice Network has published a “bail or … [Read more...]
Argentina finally has a beneficial ownership register. Now, it should make it public
The Tax Justice Network, together with Fundación SES, the Financial Transparency Coalition and PROCELAC (Argentina’s anti-money laundering prosecutor) have been co-hosting an event in Buenos Aires for the last five years to promote public beneficial ownership registries in Latin America. It looks … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: La lucha contra el Coronavirus
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 radiofónico! (Ahora también estamos … [Read more...]
Revealed: Netherlands, blocking EU’s Covid19 recovery plan, has cost EU countries $10bn in lost corporate tax a year
Italy, Spain among biggest losers of corporate tax to Netherlands, analysis of billions in tax abuse reveals EU countries locked in negotiations over a recovery plan to help member states hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic have been revealed to be losing over $10 billion in corporate tax a year … [Read more...]
My billionaire bosses funnelled money offshore for years. Now they want a bailout
We're sharing this personal story from an anonymous writer who has been made redundant in the past month. The consequences of a world where we tolerated the excesses of so-called 'wealth creators' are becoming starkly clear as their lack of responsibility or loyalty to employees and to the society … [Read more...]
Costa Rica: a bill threatening to render its beneficial ownership register useless
Costa Rica has been at the vanguard of beneficial ownership registration in Latin America and the world. The country approved its beneficial ownership registration law 9416 in December 2016 and continued to strengthen the robustness of its beneficial ownership registration requirements since then, … [Read more...]
