Financial Transparency Coalition

In the past year, scandal after scandal has exposed companies using loopholes in the tax system to avoid taxation. Now more than ever, it is becoming clear that citizens around the world are paying a high price for the crisis in the global tax system, and the discussion about multinational corporations and their tax tricks remains at the top of the

This report and website looks at the way offshore financing and ownership structures have infiltrated football clubs in the England and Scotland. Offshore finance, once a niche industry confined to the basements of some of the less scrupulous banks, accountancy firms and criminal gangs has come to dominate every aspect of economic life, including sports.

FTC member, Latin American Network on Debt, Development, and Rights (Latindadd) looked at the case of Yanacocha, a mining company operating in Peru. Latindadd examined the companies dealings in Peru and the region, and assessed whether or not the company was using murky financial structures and hidden company information to pay less in taxes to

This May 2014 case study from Global Financial Integrity on the impact of trade misinvoicing in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda—titled “Hiding in Plain Sight: Trade Misinvoicing and the Impact of Revenue Loss in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda: 2002-2011”—found that the fraudulent over- and under-invoicing of trade is hampering economic growth and