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The false EU promise of listing tax havens
May 31st, 2016
This week, European Union finance ministers agreed to establish a common EU blacklist of so-called “non-cooperative jurisdictions” – in other words, tax havens. With one tax scandal unfolding after the other, listing and sanctioning tax havens may seem like a good solution. However, as tempting as it may sound, this EU exercise is doomed to fail –
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Call for Applications: Africa Media Training Programme 2016 Now Open
May 24th, 2016
Tax Justice Network – Africa in partnership with the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Open Society Foundation of South Africa, invites suitably qualified African journalists to participate in an upcoming workshop on taxation, illicit financial outflows (IFFs) and their implications for Africa’s development. The workshop
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Why won’t governments use bank info to go after the corrupt?
May 23rd, 2016
We saw a familiar scene at the end of the Anti-Corruption Summit in London. Participating countries delivered a strong communique, and committed to increasing international transparency on tax to deter tax crimes and ‘prevent individuals from concealing proceeds of crime, including corruption in other jurisdictions’. The diagnosis of the problem is spot on, but, unfortunately, the
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