Financial Transparency Coalition

The FTC is proud to share this post from FTC Director Matti Kohonen, on taxes and personal income—and why much more transparency is needed.  Last month was Tax Day in America, and this is how much I paid – information that I believe should be made public.

On April 27, the FTC hosted a high-level panel to discuss our new Covid Bailout Tracker, which revealed a set of staggering findings regarding governmental funding responses to the pandemic. The panel discussion, which can be viewed in its entirety here (and below), touched on a range of topics, from global minimum corporate taxes to

The vast majority of Covid-19 recovery funds have gone to big corporations instead of toward welfare, small firms, or those working in the informal economy, according to the first major analysis of public bailout funds disbursed in developing countries during the pandemic.

The FTC will be hosting a high-level panel on April 27 at 9:00 EST/13:00 UTC to discuss the release and findings of the FTC’s new Covid Bailout Tracker. As an unprecedented project examining the global financial response to the ongoing pandemic – examining both stimulus spending and tax changes – the Tracker is the first