Financial Transparency Coalition

Tax Research UK has published a new briefing on secrecy jurisdictions today. This has also been endorsed by the Tax Justice Network and the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development. It is available in PDF format on the left. The briefing, the first in a new format, is designed to provide a clear insight into what we think secrecy jurisdictions are, and what problems they cause, all in a somewhat limited length. At the core of the paper are these arguments:

Global Financial Integrity Director Raymond Baker gives a lecture on the issue of illicit financial flows and the impact they have on development hosted by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and the Chr. Michelsen Institute at the the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development.

Following the annual conference of the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development last week in Bergen, Norway, Global Financial Integrity Director Raymond Baker had the opportunity to give a lecture on the issue of illicit financial flows and the impact they have on development hosted by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and the Chr. Michelsen Institute at the the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development. Check out the full lecture below:

At its annual conference last week, the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development identified concrete measures that could help developing countries to mobilise the resources needed to achieve the Millennium Developing Goals (MDGs) and go even further to help eradicate world poverty and lay the ground for a fairer global financial system. These measures include:

• taxing the USD 15 to 20 trillion of private wealth sitting in tax havens
• establishing accounting standards that oblige multinational companies to report their profits earned in every country
• or setting rules for the automatic exchange of tax information between countries.

The Task Force...