The Financial Times reports: The Bank of England’s pressure on HSBC to cancel its dividend for the first time in 74 years has reignited a debate at the top of the bank over whether it should redomicile to Hong Kong. This is shocking, on several levels. First, that's a direct threat by HSBC … [Read more...]
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When the factory gates are bolted shut, women need country by country reporting
In recent days a number of sudden and dramatic changes have happened in the labour market in already fragile economies, as the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has shown. Many workers who are poorly paid and in precarious relationships [read zero or no contracts] with ‘absent’ … [Read more...]
Feedback to EU Commission’s roadmap to tackle tax fraud and evasion
The EU Commission has called for feedback from the public on its new roadmap for tackling tax fraud evasion. Recognising that "every year in the EU, billions of euros are lost to tax evasion", the Commission has outlined an initial action plan, presenting key initiatives to: tackle tax fraudmake … [Read more...]
Edition 27 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast 27# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-seventh 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...]
Edition 14 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast: édition 14 de podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
Here's the 14th 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...]
Corporate financial resilience in times of COVID-19: a perfect storm?
Guest blog by Professor Colin Haslam, Queen Mary University of London In our working paper Safeguarding financial resilience for sustainability’ we argue that large companies listed on the European and the US stock exchanges have become financialised, leaving many with weak, financially exposed … [Read more...]
Could the wealth in tax havens help us pay for the Coronavirus response?
As economies crumble under coronavirus pandemic, powerful interests are hoping to get rich from huge government bailouts. A well-informed Washington D.C. insider described the latest U.S. bailout package, for instance, as a "corporate coup" to reshape the U.S. economy: "it’s really really bad, … [Read more...]
Tax Justice March 2020 Portuguese podcast #11: Luanda Leaks: a cumplicidade dos parasitas do norte global
Nós da Tax Justice Network e do É da sua conta estamos respeitando todas as medidas necessárias para ajudar na contenção do coronavírus. Mas o episódio 11 é sobre um outro tipo de vírus: a corrupção. Mas também vamos falar de um de seus poderosos antídotos: os leaks, vazamentos de informação em … [Read more...]
Tax justice and the coronavirus
Update: the second article in this series is entitled Could the wealth in tax havens help us pay for the Coronavirus response? The Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic is, at least on available evidence, striking rich western countries the hardest so far. Lower-income countries will be hit hard too, … [Read more...]
Climate crisis, transition and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, March 2020
In our monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? As the world buckles up for a different kind of crisis tackling the Coronavirus, we look at how … [Read more...]
Investors demand OECD tax transparency
Investors responsible for trillions of dollars of assets have called on the OECD to ensure that the country by country reporting of multinational companies is made public. With leading experts, standard setters and civil society groups fully in agreement, the only remaining opposition to this most … [Read more...]
Guest Blog: How to Tackle Audit Failures
Auditors have been described as gatekeepers of capitalism, yet there is widespread concern that the current Coronavirus pandemic, and the global recession that will inevitably accompany it, reveals a pattern of audit failures similar to recent high-profile corporate failures which surfaced in the … [Read more...]
Financing Climate Justice
As the climate crisis comes into ever sharper focus the question of how we pay for a just transition takes on ever greater urgency. In this, the first of a two-part special edition of Tax Justice Focus, guest edited by TJN Senior Adviser James Henry, we have brought together key policy proposals to … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: ¿Quienes son los más responsables del secreto financiero mundial?
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 en … [Read more...]
Make Taxes Work For Women
Great that you remembered 8 March is International Women's Day! The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) has too! The Global Alliance and its members around the world have been organising and today begin the Global Days of Action on #TaxJustice for #WomensRights, 8-20 March 2020! Here's what's … [Read more...]
