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...]
Inequality & Democracy
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...]
Hey EU Council! think again on whistleblower protection
The Tax Justice Network is a signatory to the following letter, sent this morning to the EU Council. We argue that the proposed EU Directive on the protection of whistleblowers does not adequately protect public interest, and will inhibit whistleblowers from revealing information about employers … [Read more...]
Let’s talk about what nobody at Davos wanted to talk about: tax and women
We're sharing here and article written by the Tax Justice Network's Liz Nelson, head of our research and campaigning on Tax Justice and Human Rights for the news, discussion and debate website Irish Broad Left. The original article was published here. Let’s talk about what nobody at Davos wanted … [Read more...]
Quote of the day – accountants “not set up to look for fraud.”
Following the acrimonious collapse of a British cake business, Patisserie Valerie, a quote of the day from a top accountant: We’re not looking for fraud, we’re not looking at the future, we’re not giving a statement that the accounts are correct . . . we are looking in the past and we are not set … [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...]
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...]
The UK must face up to the gender inequality it enables internationally
Co-written by the Tax Justice Network and Oxfam GB The United Kingdom is currently being reviewed by the United Nations (UN) on how well it is meeting its commitments on women's gender equality rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women … [Read more...]
Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system, not a bug: pioneering economist Susan Strange
We're sharing, with kind permission, the following article written by journalist Nat Dyer for independent global media platform Open Democracy. The global financial crime wave is no accident Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange … [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...]
How oversized finance sectors are making us poorer in the Tax Justice Network’s October 2018 podcast
In the October 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: we speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer released alongside new research from the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute on the true … [Read more...]
Lifting the Veil on Capital Flight and Tax Havens in Africa
Cross-posted from Review of the African Political Economy with kind permission from the author, Nataliya Mykhalchenko Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sigrid Klæboe Jacobsen, Peter Henriksen Ringstad, Honest Prosper Ngowi Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight … [Read more...]
