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 ...

Tax havens are located around the world. Most tax havens are rich countries, like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Britain or the United States, or dependencies of rich countries, like the British Virgin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Automatic exchange of information is a data sharing practice that prevents corporations and individuals from abusing bank accounts they hold abroad to hide the true value of their wealth and pay less ...

“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 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 ...

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 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 “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.