Financial Transparency Coalition

WASHINGTON, DC – Illicit financial flows from developing and emerging economies surged to US$1.1 trillion in 2013, according to a study released Wednesday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington, DC-based research and advisory organization. Authored by GFI Chief Economist Dev Kar and GFI Junior Economist Joseph Spanjers, the report pegs cumulative illicit outflows from developing

Just hours ago, tax transparency campaigners received a welcome victory by way of the French National Assembly, which approved a measure supporting public country by country reporting for corporations. Rather than vague bundled reports that are difficult to decipher, a requirement for country by country reporting would make it much easier to know basic information about a

Some concluding thoughts on the G20/OECD BEPS process At last month’s G20 Leaders’ Summit in Antalya, Turkey, leaders of some of the world’s largest economies endorsed measures to plug loopholes in international taxation that allow transnational corporations to dodge taxes. But as drafting of the initiative, known as the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS)

PRESS RELEASE G20/OECD plans on automatic exchange of financial information and corporate profit shifting well intentioned but miss the mark on inclusion Leaders of some of the world’s largest economies have given their final approval to plans to cut tax evasion and increase corporate transparency, yet countries most affected by tax dodging and illicit flows