Tax Justice and Human Rights Research Collaboration Symposium Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, 18-20 June 2014 Day 1: Emerging Scholars Symposium Wednesday 18 June … [Read more...]
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The April 2014 Taxcast
In the April 2014 Taxcast: Forget Congress! The Taxcast looks at the latest US state to take matters into its own hands and legislate against tax havens. Also: the scandal of how the Bank for International Settlements has kept offshore private wealth data to itself, the British government tries to … [Read more...]
Prem Sikka awarded for services to accounting
Our friend Professor Prem Sikka from Essex University, who regularly hosts our annual research conferences, and helped organised TJN's launch in March 2003, and is a Senior Adviser to TJN, has received a Lifetime Achievement award from the British Accounting and Finance Association. The award is in … [Read more...]
Symposium: Tax Justice and Human Rights, McGill University, Montreal
Tax Justice and Human Rights A Collaborative Symposium for Researchers, Students and Activists … [Read more...]
On Piketty, mathematical silliness, inherited wealth and mysterious entities
From the book everyone's talking about, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century, a review by Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books: "Why does inherited wealth play as small a part in today’s public discourse as it does? Piketty suggests that the very size of inherited fortunes in a way … [Read more...]
Swiss secrecy allies falling by the wayside
Swissinfo is running a long article today which begins like this: "The decision by Luxembourg and Austria to automatically exchange tax data with other European Union countries has isolated Switzerland in the global crusade against banking secrecy, a Tax Justice Network (TJN) expert tells … [Read more...]
TJN launches new APP and a Take Action page
As you can see, the Tax Justice Network has recently set up a new website, which we hope you'll agree is an improvement on the old one. Now we have two more pieces of exciting news. … [Read more...]
The tax justice app is now available – and it’s free
We are delighted to report that the tax justice network now has its own app, for the Android system. It is free, simple, and packed with all the latest news, views and analysis from around the world. You can find it by searching the Google Play store, or download it here. An Apple iOS version … [Read more...]
