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Veils of secrecy: enhancing tax and ownership transparency in development projects
We’re sharing here new research from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights which evaluates the role played by a member of the World Bank Group, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in development projects. The full title of their research is Veils of secrecy: evaluating the IFC’s role in enhancing tax and ownership transparency in development projects. On their website the
Read the full article…Our April 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, abril 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s programme: This month there was an international day against tax havens: as part of that we discuss
Read the full article…Your emails and us: an important notice
New European Union regulations for personal data protection are coming into force on the 25th May 2018. At the Tax Justice Network we’re committed to sharing our ideas and research with a broad global audience, in pursuit of tax justice across the world. We do some of this through our email list of subscribers to whom we send details of the
Read the full article…Edition 3 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show الجباية ببساطة
Here’s the third edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma It’s available for listeners to download and it’s also available for free to any radio stations who would like to broadcast it.
Read the full article…How come Mauritius is the biggest foreign investor in India?
We’re pleased to share a new study by Suraj Jaiswal for the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability on Foreign Direct Investment in India and the role of tax havens. As their summary of this study says: Governments across the world are trying to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a policy tool to promote growth, employment, etc. India has
Read the full article…Welcome oligarchs, erode democracy: our March 2018 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast: They say history is written by the victors. So how can we rethink the way we use words about tax havens that reflect the reality of what’s really happening? We talk to Alain Deneault about his new book in which he writes about ‘laundering with language’ – Legalising Theft: a short guide to tax havens. Plus:
Read the full article…New report: German-African research linking illicit and criminal financial flows with global poverty
The Tax Justice & Poverty research project is a co-operative effort between three institutions run by the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church: the Jesuitenmission based in Nuremberg (Germany), the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection in Lusaka (Zambia) and the Jesuit Hakimani Centre in Nairobi (Kenya). Work started in 2012 and Dr. Jörg Alt of Jesuitenmission summarises some of the conclusions
Read the full article…Our March 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, marzo 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In this month’s programme: the United States is on the way to becoming the most important tax have on the
Read the full article…Video: discussion on tax revenue losses, Apple’s tax avoidance and ‘state aid’
We’re sharing here the opening panel discussion of the June 2017 European Financial Congress, Eastern Europe’s largest finance congress in Gdansk, Poland. The theme of the panel was “Tax solidarity in the world and in the EU” and it features visiting Professor at Oxford University Philip Baker QC and the Tax Justice Network’s Markus Meinzer discussing tax revenue losses to
Read the full article…Bring in new tax to curb avoidance by multinationals: new report
A new report out today by Grace Blakeley from the progressive policy think tank IPPR argues for a re-balancing of the business taxation system. Titled Fair dues: Rebalancing business taxation in the UK, the report proposes: a series of reforms aimed at achieving a fairer burden of taxation between different kinds of businesses and taxpayers, while supporting employment, wages and
Read the full article…Video: the high cost of finance and the finance curse
In this film Dr Gerald Epstein discusses his work on how an oversized financial services sector such as the City of London, or Wall Street, can extract wealth from an economy, leading to lower growth, higher indebtedness, and rising inequality. This talk was given as a keynote lecture at a research workshop on the Finance Curse co-organised by the Tax
Read the full article…Edition 2 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show الجباية ببساطة
Here’s the second edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma, and is available for listeners to download and it’s available for free to radio networks to broadcast across the region. You can
Read the full article…Guest blog: Stopping public contracts for tax cheats
We’re pleased to share this important blog from the Fair Tax Mark‘s Chief Executive Paul Monaghan, orginally posted here. The Fair Tax Mark’s inception was supported by the Tax Justice Network and it continues to do great work. As Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK summarises very nicely, Fair tax is the new fair trade…All it takes is for
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