Joseph Stiglitz: America is on the wrong side of history The Guardian "The US has become an obstacle to reshaping international laws for tax, debt and finance" Luxembourg’s Euro Note Love Affair Raises Eyebrows Over Taxes Bloomberg Debt-Ridden Puerto Rico Plans to Become Tax Haven to Attract … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Women’s Working Group reaction to the Addis Ababa finance for development outcomes
From the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development Reaction to the Outcome Document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development: Addis Ababa Action Agenda July 2015 Download PDF The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) expresses … [Read more...]
No country for dirty money: behind Britain’s populist promise on corruption
This guest blog by Jörg Wiegratz was originally published by The Conversation, and is re-published here with the author's permission The contemporary global economy is characterised by high levels of corruption and crime. Economic chicanery and fraud are rife in many business sectors … [Read more...]
Links Aug 5
Women’s Working Group on the FfD3 outcome document CSOs for the 3rd Financing for Development Conference See also recent blog: “Global Tax Body: After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” New report on banks’ tax avoidance: Transparency is key to fight tax dumping Sven … [Read more...]
Links Aug 4
A Defeat for International Tax Cooperation Global Alliance for Tax Justice / Project Syndicate See also: Tax body blow in Addis weakens developing nations Mail & Guardian, and recent blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” Tax inspection depends … [Read more...]
Links Aug 3
Luxleaks committee demands overhaul of EU tax rules EUObserver LuxLeaks panel banks on voter rage Politico Benefits of 'double Irish' replacement tax in doubt Irish Independent Ireland is not paying ample tax — look at Danish model Irish Examiner How the Rich Can Keep Their Homes, … [Read more...]
Links Jul 30
International Tax Justice Academy: Financing Africa´s economic development Global Alliance for Tax Justice Rich Nations Reject Global Tax Body allAfrica / The Observer (Kampala) See also earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” UBS Deal … [Read more...]
Links Jul 28
How tax havens are surviving Economia Cites TJN's Markus Meinzer How shedding light on company ownership will help beat financial crime The Guardian Moving Toward Exposing Corporate Secrecy in World Bank Contracting Global Witness Puerto Rico debt crisis: austerity for residents, but tax … [Read more...]
Links Jul 23
U.N. hopes 'tax inspectors without borders' will combat tax dodging Reuters UK: Plans for new 'special measures' for tax-avoiding companies STEP See also: Criminal charges loom over facilitating tax evasion Financial Times Mystery on Baker Street: Brutal Kazakh official linked to £147m … [Read more...]
Links Jul 20
Beneficial Ownership and Transparency Panel – The Debriefing Taxlinked.net Panel includes TJN's research director Alex Cobham Reactions to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda Global Alliance for Tax Justice See also our earlier blog: Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network Podcast, July 2015
In the July 2015 Taxcast: in a special extended programme we look at the crisis in Greece and ask whatever happened to European unity? Also: we discuss the European Parliament’s vote for multinational corporations to report their activities on a public, country by country basis: the push to give … [Read more...]
Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over”
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development just held in Addis Ababa has held negotiations for an internationally agreed position to support the post-2015 development agenda. One of the key areas of dispute this year was international tax. More specifically, TJN and others … [Read more...]
Links Jul 15
Let's fix tax and fund development AVAAZ petition Latest posts from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice: Privatisation policies a major concern at FfD3 Snapshots: FfD3 in Addis Ababa Global Tax Body: in everyone’s interest How should the intergovernmental tax body be designed? Addis … [Read more...]
Quote of the day – Africa hit by global tax intrigues
Here's our quote of the day, via the Financial Transparency Coalition: “African nations are at the epicenter of the crisis of illicit financial flows, yet they are not even in the room when decisions are being made,” said Alvin Mosioma, Executive Director of the Tax Justice Network Africa. “A … [Read more...]
UK parliament: stop money laundering through UK property
More precisely, what is known as an Early Day Motion, so far signed by 20 UK MPs: "That this House notes the recent screening of From Russia with Cash on Channel 4; expresses its concern that the proceeds of corruption are being laundered through the London property market via the use of … [Read more...]
