It is with genuine sadness that we heard of Pope Francis’ death earlier this week. Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has been a global ally of tax justice. In particular, Pope Francis recognised and ...

It came as a surprise to many when in 2006, the money laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) found the US’ legal framework’s fitness to counter money laundering wanting. Was the US not ...

Tax has been an important tool of Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. The denial of Palestinians’ human rights, including the right to self-determination, represents an ...

A global asset register is a proposal to create a comprehensive international registry of all wealth and assets in order give policymakers and the public the data needed to tackle global tax abuse and ...

The Tax Justice Network believes our tax and financial systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. Every day, we inspire and equip ...

The Tax Justice Network believes our tax and financial systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. Every day, we inspire and equip ...

Trusts can be abused to shield the identity of owners of wealth and muddle the status of ownership for the purpose of paying less tax and escaping the rule of law. Trusts have increasingly become one ...

The most common way multinational corporations abuse or avoid tax is by shifting the profits they make out of the countries where they genuinely do business and into tax havens. This allows the ...

“Tax competition” is a euphemistic term for cutting corporate tax rates and deregulating to attract foreign investment based on the misconception that countries can compete like companies in a market.

The “axis of tax avoidance” refers to the four countries responsible for over half of all the tax losses that countries lose to tax havens: the UK, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The ABCs of tax justice are three transparency measures designed tackle corporate and private tax abuse and other corruption: automatic exchange of information, beneficial ownership registration and ...

One of the most common ways people hide their wealth in tax havens is by setting up a legal vehicle (like a corporation or trust) to hold their wealth or assets without disclosing information about ...