Update: you can hear Naomi Fowler and John Christensen discussing this research in edition 102 of the Taxcast, our monthly podcast, starting about 2 minutes in: It's hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished 'paying off' the debt which … [Read more...]
Aid, Tax & State-building
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...]
Immigration as reparations: the Tax Justice Network July 2019 podcast
In this month’s July 2019 podcast we speak with multiple award winning Suketu Mehta about his new book: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto on the fastest way to fix global inequalities and injustices. (A UK version of the book will be published in August 2019.) Plus: we discuss … [Read more...]
How can Africa take action against corporate tax havenry? Solutions from the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2019
How have former colonial powers maintained their stranglehold on African economies? The UK with its spider’s web of satellite jurisdictions and France are complicit in undermining the ability of African governments to tax multinational companies. Other corporate tax havens also put African countries … [Read more...]
Does transparency REALLY put the rich and famous at risk?
Are the rich and famous at risk of blackmail, extortion or kidnapping if their names are disclosed in public beneficial ownership registries, as they like to argue in tax havens like Jersey? This was a question put to me last week at a conference tackling tax injustice in Nairobi, Kenya, organised … [Read more...]
Women continue to take the lions share of austerity
Ahead of the UK Autumn budget statement (29th October 2018) the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG) provided an important analysis of why austerity isn’t over, especially for women living in the UK. It is a useful point to reflect on the role of tax and its gendered implications. … [Read more...]
Extreme inequality levels in Bermuda despite its offshore services centre, in the Tax Justice Network’s August 2018 podcast
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it's huge offshore services centre? We speak to Bermudian economist Robert Stubbs and hear from … [Read more...]
Indian cess taxes: A call for accountability (Guest blog)
This piece is about cess taxes levied by the current government in India written for us by Ashrita Prasad Kotha, Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School whose work on ‘Cesses in the Indian Tax Regime: A Historical Analysis’ has been published as a book chapter in Studies in the History of … [Read more...]
Dear mining companies, why do you use tax havens?
The Southern African Catholics Bishops Conference has written an open letter to 21 mining companies operating in South Africa asking each to explain why they use tax havens. Their full letter is here and it's worth reading. They point out, "we are not accusing companies of anything. We believe it … [Read more...]
Tax justice in the Arab world: new research
We're pleased to be able to share the recent work of the Arab NGO Network for Development, a regional network in 12 Arab countries. They've released research (available in English here and in Arabic here) which assesses tax systems in a number of Arab countries from an economic and social justice … [Read more...]
New Job Openings at TJN: Researcher (African Hub, franco- & anglophone)
Tax Justice Network is recruiting two Africa-based researchers for our Financial Secrecy and Tax Advocacy in Africa (FASTA) project, which the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) intends to support. … [Read more...]
Guest Post – Snowstorm – tax havens and organised crime today
Organised crime has had a long association with tax havens, and tax evasion. After All, Al Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion, and not any of the other crimes that it is said he committed. But how much do governments and police forces include tackling tax havens in their thinking of modern … [Read more...]
Tackling unfair tax treaties between developing countries and the UK, in UK Parliament today
Today the British Parliament will debate a Bill that tries to tackle unfair tax treaties between the UK and developing countries, some of which go back to the 1940s, sometimes when countries were still British colonies. It's an initiative we very much welcome and we hand over to our friends at … [Read more...]
OECD threatens Bahamas with blacklisting, Bahamas wilts
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo is running an article in Spanish, whose headline translates as "If Bahamas goes on like this, it will go onto the G20 blacklist" - and the text in quote marks comes from Pascal Saint-Amans, head of tax at the OECD, the club of rich countries. The Bahamas has been in … [Read more...]
UN report recommends: go after tax havens, and protect whistleblowers
From the United Nations General Assembly, the fifth report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. The summary goes like this: "The report focuses on impacts of taxation on human rights and explores the challenges posed to the international … [Read more...]
