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OECD collapse will lock in countries’ tax losses to US firms

The OECD announced today the “side-by-side system” negotiated by member countries exempting the US from OECD’s Pillar 2 tax reform.1 Alex Cobham, chief executive at the Tax Justice Network, said: ...
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Too much finance

The phenomenon of ‘too much finance’ – the consistent research finding that an outsized financial sector undermines the ...
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World losing half a trillion to tax abuse, largely due to 8 countries blocking UN tax reform, annual report finds

Multinational corporations cheated more after getting tax cuts, largest inadvertent real-world testing of corporate tax policies reveals Countries are losing US$492 billion in tax a year to ...
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Tax haven ranking shows countries setting global tax rules do most to help firms bend them

A club of rich countries determining global rules on corporate tax are responsible for over two-thirds of global corporate tax abuse, reports the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2021, a ranking of countries ...
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The State of Tax Justice 2024

Countries are losing US$492 billion in tax a year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens to underpay tax, the 2024 edition of the Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax ...
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Countries can raise $2 trillion by copying Spain’s wealth tax, study finds

Following the example of Spain’s “featherlight” wealth tax on the 0.5% richest households would see countries raise $2.1 trillion a year globally Evidence shows tax reforms targeting extreme wealth ...
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UN adopts plans for historic tax reform

Countries at the UN have adopted by a landslide majority today a resolution to begin the process of establishing a framework convention on tax and completely change how global tax rules are decided. 1 ...
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Exploring UK companies’ legal ownership chains to detect red flags and verify beneficial ownership information: Part 1

The Tax Justice Network in cooperation with the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam (@UvACORPNET) and the Data Analytics and Society Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of ...
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Tax haven ranking: UK protects itself while keeping world defenceless to British tax havens

UK network of tax havens responsible for a third of corporate tax abuse risks, but – astonishingly – rated as “not harmful” by the OECD New UK government urged to break with previous attempts to “kill ...
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Why the world needs UN leadership on global tax policy

Countries have a historic choice to make this year’s end at the UN: stay the course on global tax with the OECD or support moving leadership on global tax to the UN. This briefing explains why ...
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How “greenlaundering” conceals the full scale of fossil fuel financing

This report was produced in collaboration with Banking on Climate Chaos, whose support was essential to our analyses. We also greatly appreciate the valuable resources compiled by urgewald e.V. and ...