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...]
Human Rights
Gender Equality: Can Taxation Make It A Reality?
© United Nations Photo Days before the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women was scheduled to meet in New York to focus on the gender equality aims promised in global agreements, goals and declarations, writes Liz Nelson, will we finally look beyond traditional thinking about how … [Read more...]
Videos: Touring London, the capital of secrecy
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit will become a reality in just a few days time. January 31st will be a historic moment, for both Europe and the United Kingdom, marked by jubilant celebrations in some circles and profound misgivings in others. One very small but extremely powerful … [Read more...]
Edition 9 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: édition #9 de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the nineth edition of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous cette … [Read more...]
Tax Justice July 2019 Portuguese podcast: Desigualdade de renda, polarização e Tributação
Welcome to our third monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso novo podcast em português, o podcast mensal da Tax Justice Network, Rede de Justiça Fiscal. Veja abaixo os detalhes do programa em português. É da sua conta is … [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...]
Adapt or step aside: pressure on OECD to reform pre-World War II tax rules as UN convenes historic tax meeting
At the crossroads of the most fundamental global corporate tax reform since the 1920s, the United Nations will hold a special meeting on Monday 29 April on outlining fair tax rules fit for the modern digital economy. The meeting, to be attended by over 50 country delegates and over a hundred tax … [Read more...]
Social protection rights for women vs fear of alienating private interests at the UN
Last week marked the end of the 63rd Meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW 63, March 11th-22nd 2019). More information and analysis is available here from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, well worth a read. This series of events, meetings and deliberations is … [Read more...]
Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash in the Tax Justice Network March 2019 podcast
In Edition 87 of the March 2019 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): we discuss misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance 'experts', fed us … [Read more...]
Do women go unseen in tax justice?
Imagine if over 50 per cent of the world’s population were cast with an invisibility that impacts their birth, their childhood, their working life, their parenting life, their caring life, their mental and physical health and well-being, and their death? Less hard to imagine, perhaps, if you are one … [Read more...]
NEW: Francophone Africa Tax Justice Network podcast goes live: lancement d’un Podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We're proud to share the Tax Justice Network's brand new podcast/radio show produced in, and for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale. It's available to anyone who wants to listen to it, and, as is the case with all our … [Read more...]
UN expert: Don’t shy away from human rights impacts of fiscal reforms
Today Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, the UN's independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, published the Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Economic Reforms. Its purpose is ‘to assist States, international financial institutions, creditors, civil society and others to ensure … [Read more...]
Taxing for ‘true equality’: EU adopts tax and gender proposals
"Gender equality can and should be promoted at all levels, including fiscal policy. This report is an important step towards the promotion of a more equitable distribution of income, wealth, opportunities, productive assets and services. That is, true equality". So said MEP Marisa Matias at Monday's … [Read more...]
Too little interest, too little political will to address inequalities and human rights?
On Monday 7 January, an adjournment debate took place in the UK parliament on the recent UN report on poverty and austerity in the UK. It was hosted by the UK Labour party’s Shadow Minister for Children, Emma Lewell-Buck. Scheduled at the end of the day’s parliamentary business, the debate drew a … [Read more...]
UK next in the UN hot seat over impact of City of London, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories tax policies on women’s rights
Guest blog Kathleen A. Lahey Professor of Law, Queen’s University Non-Executive Director, Tax Justice Network Advocates for gender equality in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in any of its three Crown Dependencies and fourteen Overseas Territories have a unique … [Read more...]
