TAX HAVENS CAUSE POVERTY
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
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)
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
We are an independent international network launched in 2003. We conduct high-level research, analysis and advocacy on international tax; on the international aspects of financial regulation; on the role of tax in society; and on the impacts of tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax ‘competition’ and tax havens. We seek to create understanding and debate, and to promote reform, especially in poorer countries. We are not aligned to any political party.
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