Financial Transparency Coalition

A new study supported by the FTC and published by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, a Coordinating Committee member, looked at India’s experience with exchange of information agreements with other countries, as well as recommendations for other countries to get better access to information on their citizen’s assets held abroad. 

A month ago the Tax Justice Network published a preliminary report entitled  ‘The end of bank secrecy?’Bridging the gap to effective automatic information exchange, looking at the OECD’s new system of automatic information exchange. They have now completed a final technical analysis of the report. It is not very different from the preliminary version: the main updates are to the timeline

From the International Tax Review: “The Tax Justice Network (TJN) has accused the OECD of not consulting developing countries about the design of the framework for Automatic Information Exchange (AIE), which the G20 has endorsed as the global model for information exchange.” Our new report was prompted partly by comments from OECD tax boss Pascal Saint-Amans

Achieving Transparency: a Dialogue for Action Representatives from civil society organizations and governments, policy makers, academics, and journalists gathered in Bergen, Norway September 28th and 29th, 2010, for the second annual conference of the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development. The Task Force conference featured two-days of presentations, panels, and break-out sessions focusing