This is a moment, in these strange times, to celebrate an ongoing success in the history of the tax justice movement. Automatic, multilateral exchange of information on financial accounts is the A of our ABC of tax transparency. It has been a campaign aim since our inception in the early 2000s, as … [Read more...]
Praise for TJN
Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a Tax Justice Network idea bears fruit
The Economist is running an article about a fairly new body called Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a programme backed by the OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to provide tax assistance to hard-pressed revenue authorities in poorer countries, whose underpaid officials struggle to … [Read more...]
Campaign victory disarms big tobacco’s lobby front in developing countries
Update: the Financial Times has covered the great news. Below is a press release cross-posted from Tax Tobacco for Life, about a major campaign victory, which could save hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives in some of the poorest countries in the world. Here's the quick story. Big … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Network in Global Top Tax 50
The Tax Justice Network has been recognised once again as being among the top fifty global organisations influencing geopolitical tax policy matters in 2016. According to International Tax Review: "Global tax transparency advances in 2016 have been influenced by TJN's efforts and some of its … [Read more...]
New ranking of how transparent the think tanks are
From Transparify.com, a new report: "We visited think tanks’ websites and looked at the funding and donor information disclosed online, including in online annual reports. Institutions rated with the maximum of five stars are highly transparent about who funds them. Think tanks with four stars are … [Read more...]
