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...]
Inequality & Tax Havens
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...]
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...]
Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, June 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: We look at the United States and how tax justice can help address systemic racism.Plus: did you know Britain's slave owners compensation loan was only settled by the government in 2015 on behalf of taxpayers? Faulkner … [Read more...]
Tax, reparations and ‘Plan B’ for the UK’s tax haven web
The killing of George Floyd by US police in Minnesota, on 25 May 2020, has sparked a public response both more powerful and more international than almost any of the previous cases in a very long line - including Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, 13 March 2020. The demands for justice extend far beyond … [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...]
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...]
Rising inequality and dysfunction in the tax haven of Jersey: a Taxcast special edition
In this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey: we explore Jersey's poor showing in the OECD's Better Life Index and ask why Jersey's spending so much money on improving its bad image instead of setting up public registers of beneficial … [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...]
Brussels celebrates ‘tax freedom’ for billionaires on 4th January 2019
Our colleagues in Belgium have decided to celebrate the fourth of January as the day when billionaires in Belgium will have earned sufficient to pay their tax bill for the whole of 2019. In an era of preposterous inequality, social fragmentation and political crisis, what's not to celebrate? … [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...]
Public Services and Economic Injustice in Tax Break Ireland
The reality of ill-health leaves little time to dwell on rights and justice, or on what might turn out to be empty promises - as the Irish Examiner reports. And while the experience of living with ill health might be said to be something of a leveller, it is not. There is no ‘level playing field’ if … [Read more...]
Inequality and the consequences: how much is too much?
We’re pleased to share work from Bermudian economist Robert Stubbs, formerly Head of Research for the Bank of Bermuda. We blogged his research on inequality and poverty in the British Overseas territory of Bermuda here. There are more details on him and his work below. Here he asks some searching … [Read more...]
Bermuda: inequality and poverty in UK Overseas Territory
We're very pleased to share this important report on the British Overseas territory of Bermuda, written by Bermudian economist Robert Stubbs, formerly Head of Research for Bank of Bermuda. There are more details on him and his work at the end of this fascinating and timely report. which we reproduce … [Read more...]
