Financial Transparency Coalition

2016 is a big year for the open government movement, and recent revelations from the leaked Panama Papers will only serve to forward the transparency discussion further. As we’ve seen from the worldwide coverage, things like hidden company ownership and strict secrecy have fueled questionable links between world leaders and offshore jurisdictions. Luckily, from the

JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY RELEASE ECONOMIC JUSTICE NETWORK – FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY COALITION – TAX JUSTICE NETWORK – AFRICA

While all human rights are indivisible, economic and social rights entail specific principles that bear relevance for tax policy. Economic and social rights require that states devote maximum available resources to their progressive realization. The principle of non-retrogression sets forth that states should not take measures that deliberately lead to retrogression on the enjoyment of

PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK CITY—As the fallout from the Panama Papers continues to unfold, the massive scale of illicit flows across the globe illustrates the need for an intergovernmental tax commission at the UN to tackle these problems in an equitable and effective way.