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...]
Human Rights
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...]
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...]
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...]
Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry
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...]
Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast #13: Pandemia: como acertar no socorro às empresas?
Em meio à crise econômica e sanitária, o governo brasileiro anunciou uma injeção de mais de US$ 185 bilhões para ajudar o setor financeiro — cerca de dez vezes o orçamento do Ministério da Saúde. Enquanto isso, 87% das micro e pequenas indústrias do Estado de São Paulo, por exemplo, não conseguem … [Read more...]
Women & Tax: can you help with this survey?
Liz Nelson coordinates our Tax Justice & Human Rights work and she's undertaking research as part of Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity Programme of which she is a 2019/20 Fellow. Can you help with her survey? She explains more: I'm working on a project to understand women's … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network Spanish language monthly podcast: El coronavirus: ¿quién va a pagar?
Welcome to this month’s 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 iTunes y tenemos un nuevo … [Read more...]
COVID-19: India’s self-employed women, rights and a sustainable response
Acknowledgement: The Tax Justice Network is grateful for the information provided by India’s Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The COVID 19 pandemic has ‘flipped’ our understanding of many things which we took for granted pre-lockdown. One of these is the role of the state. … [Read more...]
A Feminist Response to COVID-19
Today we are delighted to support the launch of a new and critically important website: 'a volunteer online data repository of information on feminist principles and actions, as well as policy responses to the COVID crisis.' After the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2020 was … [Read more...]
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...]
