Financial Transparency Coalition

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   New appointee has strong ties to tax and transparency world, plans to hit the ground running WASHINGTON—The Executive Committee of the Financial Transparency Coalition is pleased to announce the appointment of Savior Mwambwa as Interim Director. “We’re ecstatic that Savior has decided to join the Coalition at this crucial

As we mentioned recently on our blog the 3rd International Conference on Beneficial Ownership Registries took place in Buenos Aires on June 21st-22nd at Argentina’s Central Bank. This was another successful event attended by the Tax Justice Network’s Andres Knobel, who reports back to us here on the dicussions there:More than 150 people participated in the

PRESS RELEASE As negotiators met in New York to discuss how to pay for development, new agreements on curbing illicit financial flows were worryingly absent NEW YORK—Government negotiators, members of civil society and the private sector met in New York this week to follow up on the United Nation’s Financing for Development commitments. But despite the continued drain

At the UN ECOSOC special meeting on international cooperation in tax matters held on 7 April 2017,  G77 and China (group of 134 developing countries) reiterated their long-standing demand for an intergovernmental tax body at the UN. Additional statements in support of the issue were made by Egypt, Brazil, India and CARICOM (14 member states