TJN has done more than any other organisation to put fiscal justice at the center of the policy agenda. Tax issues should not be left to those who want to escape taxes! Changes will come when more and more citizens of the world take ownership of these matters. TJN is a powerful force acting in this direction.
Thomas Piketty, Economist
Founded at a time when tax was a Cinderella subject, the Tax Justice Network was one of few voices challenging the status quo. Since then, its energy and international reach have greatly magnified its influence as the issues it championed moved up the political agenda.
Vanessa Houlder, The Financial Times
I credit TJN for not only putting tax issues at the heart of the global development debate but also for ensuring that the voices of the people , especially from the Global South are heard loud and clear in this debate.
Jane Nalunga, Southern and Eastern African Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute
TJN has played a crucial role in opening up a whole range of issues. Questions of taxation are important in themselves, and they also unlock wider fundamental debates about the nature of our society. TJN has been at the forefront of opening up such issues.
Doreen Massey, Open University
Quienes luchamos hoy día a nivel global contra los crímenes fiscales y por desmontar la institucionalidad mundial creada para favorecer la impunidad y la opacidad fiscal; no podemos dejar de reconocer que sin TJN no tendríamos un movimiento internacional por la Justicia Fiscal con tanta fuerza y visibilidad. TJN ha sido fundamental para nosotros en América Latina al brindarnos el instrumental teórico y técnico para comprender el entramado de mecanismos utilizados por los consorcios multinacionales para estimular el fraude fiscal.
“Those of us fighting at a global level against tax crimes, and those who are seeking to dismantle the global institutions that promote impunity and fiscal opacity, cannot fail to recognise that without TJN we simply would not have an international movement for tax justice with such strength and visibility. TJN has been fundamental for us in Latin America in providing the theoretical and technical tools to understand the network of mechanisms used by multinational corporations to engage in tax cheating.”
Jorge Coronado Marroquin, Desarrollo y Derechos (LATINDADD)
TJN was instrumental not only in promoting policy issues pertaining to global tax dodging and exposing its impact on government revenue and public service provision worldwide and development finance in developing countries. It was also equally instrumental in encouraging, and giving policy and institutional support to civil society organisations in the South to engage with the issues and join the tax justice movement to raise their voice and get involved in the struggle against tax dodging and illicit financial flows. Tax Justice Network ? Africa and other tax justice networks in the South owe a lot to this initial support.
Dereje Alemayehu, Global Alliance for Tax Justice
Without the TJN it is impossible for me to imagine how activists and an ever growing public would ever have understood – and been outraged by – the threat the offshoring of the world’s wealth represents to the 20th century’s major social innovations: the middle class and the social welfare state. And on a personal note, it was not until I came into contact with TJN that I knew how to go about exposing the “fiscal termite” eating away at democracy.
Harold Crooks, The Price We Pay
Not only does the Tax Justice Network know as much about tax havens, dodges, avoidance and evasion as PriceWaterhouse, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young combined! they use their expertise for the benefit of the 99 percent and show how we can claw back the stolen billions and use the money for the common good.
Susan George, The Transnational Institute
TJN has done invaluable pioneering effort to elevate tax justice advocacy as a broad international effort, and providing rigorous, credible research, policy analysis and proposals. We have learned a lot from the sharing of information, updates and analyses. It has helped greatly in linking our work with others across the globe for mutual support and solidarity in pursuing common goals.
Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South, Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt & Development (JSAPMDD)
TJN’s efforts to promote international cooperation on the part of governments and enforce responsibility on the part of multinationals safeguard the resources developing countries need for their development.
Manuel (Butch) Montes, The South Centre
TJN has been instrumental over the past 10 years in making people understand that paying taxes is key to building a civilised society, that tax evasion and tax avoidance must be addressed without complacency. They have significantly contributed to trigger the political support necessary to fight bank and fiduciary secrecy and address the distortions of the international tax system.
Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD
In some ways I feel responsible for TJN’s creation since I suggested in a 2000 OECD Observer report that civil society needed to have a stronger voice in the international tax debate. Well, over these 12 years it certainly has achieved this, moving tax issues up the political agenda.
Jeffrey Owens, OECD
The expression ‘tax justice’ has entered vocabulary, thanks to the efforts of the Tax Justice Network. Its calls for automatic exchange of information, transparency of company ownership, country-by-country reporting and unitary taxation have redefined the field of taxation, corporate governance and international relations to empower people and call giant corporations to account.
Prem Sikka, Centre for Global Accountability
The tireless campaigners at Tax Justice Network, always armed with the best data and the most incisive analysis, have been absolutely key in shifting the scandal of global tax evasion from the nerdy fringes of public debate to the very centre.
Heather Stewart, The Observer
When big businesses and the rich avoid paying their fair share of tax, they cheat us all. The
Richard Wilkinson, The Equality Trust
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