Financial Transparency Coalition

PRESS RELEASE As 6th Financial Transparency Conference ends, work on illicit financial flows is only getting started Though local and regional contexts vary, participants from around the world see common thread in issues of tax and transparency  

PRESS RELEASE The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project outcomes in an effort to cut down on tax avoidance by multinational corporations (MNCs), but because vital information from the new reporting effort won’t be made public, questions linger on what good it will do

The OECD, a club of rich countries that dominates rule-setting for global financial transparency standards, recently published a Handbook for implementing its new global tool for countries to co-operate in fighting tax evasion, known as the Common Reporting Standard (CRS). The new handbook is part of a series of milestones in the CRS’ roll-out following its initial

PRESS RELEASE SwissLeaks money connected to Kenya is six and half times higher share of GDP than the money connected to Spain  In less than two weeks, G20 Finance Ministers will sit down to dinner, but developing countries won’t even have a seat at the table