Tax Justice Network
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, 5th-6th JULY 2011
DEBT, TAX AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Fuller details of the workshop, including a downloadable booking form, are available here
Tuesday 5th July
Arrival & Registration: 12.00-12.45
Welcome and Introduction: 12.45 John Christensen (TJN)
Session 1: 13.00-14.45 Chair: Prem Sikka, Essex University
The Role of Tax in Achieving Human, Social and Economic Rights
Chairman's Introductory Comments
Attiya Waris and Matti Kohonen
Building Taxation to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
Ignacio Saiz
The role of fiscal policy in realising economic and social rights: the "Rights or Privileges" project in Guatemala
Break
Session 2: 15.00 -16.45 Chair: Richard Murphy
Tax and Social Justice
Peter Dietsch
Efficiency of what? Tax competition and the promotion of social objectives
Peter Latham
Land Value Taxation, debt and human rights: A Gramscian Perspective
Ayse Nil Özbakan Tosun, Oytun Canyas
Effects of the European Convention on Human Rights on Turkish Tax Policy and Administration
Tea
Session 3: 17.15 -18.15 Chair: Sarah Knott
Getting to the Roots of the Problem
Christophe Farquet
The Swiss Tax Haven in the Inter-War Period: An International Comparison
John Christensen, Nicholas Shaxson, Sam Heinrichs
The Shaping of an Ideology of Offshore
Drinks
19h00 Buffet Dinner
20h00 Panel Discussion — Debt, Tax and Human Rights led by Nick Dearden (Jubilee Debt Campaign), Ronen Palan (University of Birmingham) and Attiya Waris (University of Nairobi)
Wednesday 6th July
Session 4: 09.00-10.30 Chair: Markus Meinzer
Tax and Change
Tim Knight
Equitable Distribution of Wealth and Income Through Taxation
Tony Crawford
Capitalism without Capital: Tracking the Monetisation of Toxic Loans through Taxation Systems
Emerta Asaminew
Estimating the Underground Economy in Ethiopia
Session 5: 11.00-12.30: Chair: Liz Nelson
Exploring Secrecy: Mechanisms and Magnitudes
Jim Henry
The Price of Offshore Revisited
Steven Eichenberger, Markus Meinzer
Mapping Financial Secrecy 2011 — Changes, Process, Methodology and Implications
Alex Cobham, Petr Jansky
Tracking 'offshore' finance through the crisis: Using the Financial Secrecy Index to explore the evolution of dirty money flows
Workshop ends
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