The annual Tax Justice Network / AABA conference will take place on 3 and 4 July 2008 at Essex University.
The provisional programme is here.
If you want to attend full booking information is available here .
These are usually lively and entertaining events, suitable for academics but staged with others in mind as well.
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It was good to be in the Netherlands yesterday at the conference of the Tax Justice Network in that country.
What was so good about the event was that the event did not just attract TJN people, or those from the support organisations with which we are often associated, such as development agencies (although it was [...]
The Tax Justice Network for Africa issued this press release today:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2008
Lusaka, Zambia
Africa has lost $607 billion (US).
Equitable taxation not aid will end the looting of Africa: Tax Justice Network for Africa
Africa’s revolving door
Capital flight from Africa is devastating development at an alarming rate. It deprives Africa of investment and further exacerbates [...]
The House of Commons’ Treasury Select Committee issued the follwoing press notice this afternoon:
Treasury Committee press notice no.42
30 April 2008: For Immediate Release
Treasury Committee announces new inquiry into Offshore Financial Centres and invites written evidence
New inquiry: The Treasury Committee has decided to undertake an inquiry into Offshore Financial Centres, as part of its ongoing work [...]
Roy Hattersley wrote in the Observer today that:
It is a rule of progressive politics that necessary and feasible reforms are often postponed because opponents master the details while supporters rely on passionate assertions of principle.
In tax, that’s changing. It’s TJN that is providing the technical detail that is changing the UK and worldwide debate on [...]
The Center for Freedom and prosperity have long taunted me and the Tax Justice Network about my refusal to debate with them whilst they refused to disclose the sources of their income.
Then, when an independent party arranged the debate I agreed to participate, this week, and I’ve blogged what I said.
Many people at the conference [...]
I’m amused to note that on Friday the Center for Freedom and Prosperity issued a press release saying:
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by 31 of the country’s most influential free-market groups, has sent a letter urging the World Bank “to stand on the side of tax competition and fiscal sovereignty and not [...]
The first quarter 2008 edition of Tax Justice Focus published by the Tax Justice Network is a special edition focusing on the preparations for the United Nations meeting on Finance for Development in Doha, Qatar, from November 29-December 2, 2008. TJN’s press release on this says:
In the editorial, The Road to Doha, we look at [...]
At the core of what the Tax Justice Network campaigns for is greater transparency. With regard to multinational corporations this could be achieved by country-by-country reporting. A new Tax Justice Network briefing paper explains how, and why this is so important.
Michael Meacher MP spoke on tax justice in the budget debate. It’s one of the fullest speeches on the subject in the House of Commons, so I reproduce it in full:
Mr. Meacher: There was one rather odd omission from the Budget. It contained next to nothing about dealing with tax avoidance. That is quite surprising [...]
