Financial Transparency Coalition

In April and May of 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made public the largest ever investigation into international fraud, exposing a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking. The revelations dubbed the ‘Panama papers’ has brought to the fore systemic

Tax Justice Network – Africa in partnership with the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Open Society Foundation of South Africa, invites suitably qualified African journalists to participate in an upcoming workshop on taxation, illicit financial outflows (IFFs) and their implications for Africa’s development. The workshop

We saw a familiar scene at the end of the Anti-Corruption Summit in London. Participating countries delivered a strong communique, and committed to increasing international transparency on tax to deter tax crimes and ‘prevent individuals from concealing proceeds of crime, including corruption in other jurisdictions’. The diagnosis of the problem is spot on, but, unfortunately, the

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As the UK Anti-Corruption Summit closes, it’s vital that countries rapidly implement commitments made As a group of world leaders lend their names to the Anti-Corruption Summit in London, it’s important that we see action from all nations to put an end to tax abuse, corruption, and other illicit flows.