This week the Tax Justice Network released the results of the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index bringing the real story on global corruption to the world's attention. We've seen some of the usual protests from some in the offshore world but what they cannot get away from, much as they might like to, is … [Read more...]
Financial Secrecy Index
The Financial Secrecy Index: the real story on global corruption in our January 2018 podcast
In our January 2018 Taxcast we explore the results of the Tax Justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index just out, that tell the real story of global corruption. We look at: the top ten worst global offenders the 4 key geographical political poles: the Far East, Europe, Britain plus its … [Read more...]
Switzerland, USA and Cayman top the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index
Switzerland, the United States and the Cayman Islands are the world’s biggest contributors to financial secrecy, according to the latest edition of the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index. The full financial secrecy index can be found online at www.financialsecrecyindex.com … [Read more...]
Financial Secrecy Index 2018 – Launch Date January, 30th
We are pleased to announce our final launch date for the next Financial Secrecy Index (FSI). The launch will take place on 30 January 2018 at 18.00 CET. This next FSI will be covering 112 jurisdictions up from 92 in 2015. We have substantially increased the number of Key Financial Secrecy … [Read more...]
Portrait of a tax haven: Jersey
The next in our series of articles taking a deep dive into some of the world's tax havens ahead of the publication of our next installment of the Financial Secrecy Index. Today, we are publishing an article setting out the history and development of Jersey as a financial center. … [Read more...]
The story of a tax haven: Cyprus
As we work towards the publication of the next Financial Secrecy Index, today we are publishing a guest post from Peter Ringstad from TJN Norway on the history of Cyprus as a tax haven. The FSI includes with it a number of narrative reports on the history and development of a range of … [Read more...]
Redistributive hypocrisy: The growing dominance of tax haven USA
We're delighted to bring you a guest blog by Lukas Hakelberg, a researcher from the University of Bamberg - one of our partners in the EC-funded COFFERS project. The blog outlines the motivation and key findings of a study by Lukas and a colleague, Max Schaub. We've been raising the alarm about … [Read more...]
Two days left to end financial secrecy in the UK’s Overseas Territories?
UK parliamentarians have the opportunity to take historic action over the next two days, ending decades of financial secrecy in the UK's Overseas Territories. As Parliament closes down before the General Election which will take place on the 8th June, a lot of ongoing business is now at risk. A … [Read more...]
Open Cayman: Reputation, rhetoric and reality
By Alex Cobham https://youtu.be/2An-A4U00DU?t=23m16s Last week I took up the kind invitation of the government of Cayman to speak at their conference on 'Tax Transparency in the Global Financial Services Ecosystem', and to meet with staff from the monetary authority, statistics office and … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s webinar on the next Financial Secrecy Index
The Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index ranks jurisdictions according to their secrecy and the scale of their offshore financial activities. It’s a politically neutral ranking, the world’s most effective tool for understanding global financial secrecy, tax havens and secrecy … [Read more...]
Panama Papers Committee investigates in London UK, home to 2,000 ‘enablers’
UPDATE: 15 February 2017, London - Bloomberg has reported that the chairman of the EU's Panama Papers inquiry has criticised the UK Treasury for refusing to meet with its investigatory team during the recent fact-finding visit to London. Read more here. Last year the Panama Papers scandal shook … [Read more...]
TJN moves forward with work on 2017 Financial Secrecy Index
The next financial secrecy index has now reached its first big milestone with questionnaires being sent out to 112 jurisdictions. … [Read more...]
