Financial Transparency Coalition

2016 is a big year for the open government movement, and recent revelations from the leaked Panama Papers will only serve to forward the transparency discussion further. As we’ve seen from the worldwide coverage, things like hidden company ownership and strict secrecy have fueled questionable links between world leaders and offshore jurisdictions. Luckily, from the

JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY RELEASE ECONOMIC JUSTICE NETWORK – FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY COALITION – TAX JUSTICE NETWORK – AFRICA

PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK CITY—As the fallout from the Panama Papers continues to unfold, the massive scale of illicit flows across the globe illustrates the need for an intergovernmental tax commission at the UN to tackle these problems in an equitable and effective way.

Joint Media Reaction Oxfam EU – Financial Transparency Coalition – ActionAid EU –  Eurodad – Tax Justice Network – Africa BRUSSELS—The European Commission has missed yet another chance to effectively end tax havens, campaigners say. Today’s proposal on tax transparency limits public country-by-country reporting to the EU and an arbitrary list of tax havens. This