Oxfam has issued a new report today that suggests: People using tax havens are depriving the world of more than $150 billion (£100bn) in lost revenue, enough money to end extreme poverty twice over As the add: A high proportion of this tax dodging is taking place on David Cameron and George Osborne’s watch. Of
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It’s often argued that tax havens cause no harm and just “keep the wheels of trade moving”. That’s not true. As Christian Aid note in a new report: In new research on Switzerland – the country at the top of the Financial Secrecy Index – Christian Aid reveals that as much as US$578bn (£367.6bn) could have been shifted from developing countries
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The following is from Christian Aid this morning I share it because I believe in what they’re doing and saying. ___________________ The scandal of world hunger could soon be ended if the revenues that developing countries lose through tax dodging were available to them to invest in agricultural development, says a new report from Christian Aid. One
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This is from Prof Paul Collier, currently an adviser to David Cameron on the G8 process, writing in the FT this morning: Spectacular “profits” from resource extraction are likely to be rent-seeking: companies acquiring the natural assets of poor people. Such behaviour demonstrates not exceptionally high business talent but exceptionally low corporate ethics. I agree. A also
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From the Voice of America. Featuring y co-author Ronen Palan. And some very bizarre abuse that flies in the face of all the evidence from Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs - the think tank that pioneered neoliberal abuse in the UK and with it the philosophy that the 1% should take all.

The following letter was in the FT this morning. I endorse it and what it demands and am pleased by its ecumenical and multi-faith approach: From the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby and others. Sir, April 5 marks the start of the 1,000-day countdown to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015
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From TheRules.Org You can quibble with a number or two but it will never change the conclusion: we need to change the rules.

The following was written by friend and long term collaborator in tax campaigning on international development issues Alex Cobham and was published on the blog of the Center for Global Development,  for whom he works. I thought it well worth sharing, and do so with permission: For developing countries, the most important part of last
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I’m sure I’m not alone in having problems with President Zuma of South Africa. He’s not an appealing man for many reasons, but I suspect he’s right when he says this, as reported in the FT this morning: Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, has warned western companies they must change their old “colonial” approach to
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