March 13th, 2020
By Sakshi Rai, Andres Arauz, Francois Godbout, Grace Mbogo, Luis Moreno, Mae Buenaventura and Robert Ssuuna
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January 15th, 2020
Tax incentives have been widely used on the justification that they attract investments. Yet there is mounting evidence that they are largely ineffective. So why are they still so popular among politicians and policymakers?
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October 1st, 2019
New report Trapped in Illicit Finance: How abusive tax and trade practices harm human rights – by FTC members Christian Aid, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability and Fundación SES – demands that the ‘legalistic’ definition of illicit financial flows goes beyond only illegal flows of money. The report estimates that developing nations lose $416
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May 24th, 2018
A new report funded by the FTC and produced by member organization Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability examines why automatic exchange of tax information is a vital component to addressing illicit financial flows. The report examines the current standards of AEoI, as well as some of the shortcomings of the current discussion, while citing
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