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Breaking the vicious circles of illicit financial flows, conflict and insecurity
Cobham, A. 2016. Breaking the vicious circles of illicit financial flows, conflict and insecurity. GREAT Insights Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 1. February 2016. Republished with permission of the European...
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Counted, sort of: IFF estimates
If you’re in London on 9 March, I’ll be giving a seminar at King’s College on the range of approaches to IFF estimates (illicit financial flows, that is) and tax losses. All welcome, just email...
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Benchmarking #Googletax – 2% in the UK?
The Tax Justice Network has just released a new analysis of Google’s UK tax position. Rather than speculate on the nature of the deal reached with the HMRC, the UK tax authority, we simply compare the...
View ArticleDebating corporate tax avoidance and incidence
From ‘The Newsmakers’, hosted by Imran Garda, a debate on corporate tax avoidance between me and Tim Worstall from the Adam Smith Institute. The full piece is linked at TJN. On the subject of...
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Open Data for Tax Justice: Launch! #OD4TJ
Cross-posted from Tax Justice Network. Every year countries lose billions of dollars to tax avoidance, tax evasion and more generally to illicit financial flows. According to a recent IMF estimate...
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The inexorable approach of country-by-country reporting
Cross-posted from taxjustice.net The full publication of multinational companies’ country-by-country reporting took a step closer today. A begrudging step, which as it stands would negate most of the...
View ArticleThe US Treasury just declared tax war on Europe
Update: here’s an interview I did with Share Radio which goes through the key points. Cross-posted from TJN. On this quiet August day, the US Treasury has fired the first shots of a tax war with...
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Tax Justice Network: A transition
John Christensen Cross-posted, of course, from TJN. After 13 years, our founding executive director John Christensen is stepping down. We’re delighted that John will stay on and become our new board...
View Article#CaymanTax transparency conference: speaking notes
Here are my speaking notes (3 pages) for the Cayman government’s conference on Tax Transparency in the Global Financial Services Ecosystem, 5 April. Live-tweeting when I’m not talking, at #CaymanTax....
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Tax justice, the new Washington consensus?
Cross-posted from Tax Justice Network. I had the honour of giving a keynote address at the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings on 15th October 2017, for an event entitled ‘Technical...
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