Financial Transparency Coalition

We've just completed our pre-conference seminar here at the 2013 FTC Conference in Dar es Salaam. Fifty reporters, civil society members, and experts from across the world gathered to prepare for the conference. Tomorrow, we're expecting that number to quadrupedal for the conference's main event on October 1st and second. For the first time, we're scaling up opportunities to participate in the conference. I'll be live-tweeting the event as our panoply of experts discuss financial transparency and illicit financial flows. On each side of the main stage, we will be displaying all Tweets using the hashtag #FTCDar2013. You can...

Greetings from Dar es Salaam! We’re still half a day away from the beginning the 2013 FTC Conference main program, and we’ve already seen a number of exciting developments. One big development: Semkae Kilonzo, Coordinator for Policy Forum, our partners for the conference in Dar, had a great blog post published at The Guardian this

The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition is looking to hire a Policy Analyst. FTC, Global Financial Integrity, and Global Witness all work very closely with the FACT Coalition on legislation and policy to fulfill FTC's five recommendations.

When accused of abusive tax avoidance, the first words out of a mouth of a large-company CEO are usually, "We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to avoid taxes." According to a new opinion from Farrer & Co, a major law firm in the UK, that may not be the case. The opinion, which applies only to the United Kingdom, states, "It is not possible to construe a director's statutory obligation to promote the success of the company as a positive duty to avoid tax." FTC Coordinating Committee member Tax Justice Network will be sending a letter to each...