In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: We look at the terrible Beirut explosion and how the story of tracing those responsible tells us everything that's wrong with our world.Plus, we discuss what President-elect Biden's win could mean for tax and economic … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition
The Transnational Institute has just published a report setting out ten proposals to mobilise resources to cover the cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic and to pay for the transition away from the fossil fuel economy. As the report points out in its conclusion, the multiple crises facing both the … [Read more...]
Online conference: Imperial Inequalities: States, Empires, Taxation and Reparations – Registration open
Two day online conference: 03 and 04 December 7:00 - 12:30 PST / 12:00 – 17:30 GMT / 13:00 - 18:30 CEST / 17:30 - 23:00 IST Register here Co-organised with Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex and Julia McClure, University of Glasgow and based on a forthcoming volume Imperial … [Read more...]
Online conference: How to pay for the climate transition – Registration open
Two day online event: 10 and 11 December / 9:00 - 12:30 PST / 14:00 – 17:30 GMT / 15:00 - 18:30 CEST / 19:30 - 23:00 IST Register here As the climate crisis comes into ever sharper focus the question of how we pay for a just transition takes on an ever-greater urgency. Plenty of voices … [Read more...]
The Elephant Trap: The Language of National Security and the Politics of Liberation
It is tempting for reformers to adopt the language of national security in pursuit of policies that would help protect the interests of popular constituencies. But we should be wary that we don’t operate in a register that is far more congenial to our opponents. In this guest blog, reproduced from … [Read more...]
Systemic Corruption and the Oligarchic Threat to National Security
Attempts to tackle corruption have tended to work with a narrow, legalistic definition of the phenomenon, which leaves much that should concern us either out of focus or altogether invisible. In this guest blog, cross-posted from our recent edition of Tax Justice Focus on national security, Camila … [Read more...]
A reparational justice journey: the Tax Justice Network podcast, October 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast, we go on a reparational justice journey and speak to the Council for World Mission about their Legacies of Slavery project. Plus: austerity's out, public investment is now in?! We discuss the IMF's hypocritical turn around … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Winning the Fight for Tax Justice – how do we make multinationals pay?
Yes, we can build an open and transparent tax system that works fairly for everyone. Do you know how multinationals shift their profits to dodge their taxes and how we can stop them? Our beautifully illustrated new videos tell you how, narrated in five different languages by our tax justice podcast … [Read more...]
The Financial Infrastructure of Corruption
We recently published a special edition of Tax Justice Focus on national security, guest edited by Jack Blum, Charles Davidson and Ben Judah. You can read their editorial here. In the following article, Yakov Feygin from the Berggruen Institute, argues that the United States could and should use … [Read more...]
Tax havens harm our well-being and security
Image: NeoNazi_02″ by Chad Johnson is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This week we published a special edition of Tax Justice Focus on national security, guest edited by Jack Blum, Charles Davidson and Ben Judah. You can read their editorial here. In the coming days we will publish the five … [Read more...]
Offshore, National Security and Britain’s Role
Image: NeoNazi_02" by Chad Johnson is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The long recession precipitated by the 2008 financial crisis fed political failures across the world, increasing inequality and polarising societies to the point of social breakdown. As far-right movements threaten to take … [Read more...]
Systemic racism and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, July 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast we bring you part 2 on how tax justice can help address systemic racism in the US: Author Shawn Rochester, (The Black Tax: the cost of being Black in America) does some number crunching on the historic denial of equality … [Read more...]
Taking Panama to task: Women’s rights trampled by financial secrecy
Just over four years have passed since a huge archive of secret documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, containing wide-ranging details of fraud, tax evasion and other illegal financial schemes, were leaked to a German newspaper provoking a global scandal. The public outcry that … [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...]
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...]
