The Tax Justice Network was launched at a meeting at the House of Commons on 24 March 2003. John Christensen’s done a write up here. Ten
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I admit to be looking forward to Easter. After the busiest month on the blog ever, a lot of work on the General Anti-Abuse Rule, work
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I have argued for some time that the management of HMRC needs to be radically reformed. My focus has been on the non-executives, whose collective
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Cyprus is moving into unknown territory today, if not wholly by choice. The deal now agreed to close Laiki Bank and massively restructure the Bank of Cyprus will mean
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In March 2013’s Taxcast form the Tax Justice Network: the crisis in Cyprus and the risk tax havens pose to the global economy, a surprise earthquake
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Oxfam’s budget analysis: Oxfam has to campaign in the UK now: poverty is an unavoidable issue here too.

I’ve already mentioned that Cyprus is indisputably a secrecy jurisdiction / tax haven. The nay-sayers will, however, suggest that this conclusion was based on my own research, so let me
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In 2009 and 2011 (and again, later this year) the Tax Justice Network has conducted an in-depth analysis of the worlds’s secrecy jurisdictions, basing its work on over 200
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In 2007 the IMF published a novel paper by Ahmed Zorome seeking to find a new way to define what he calls offshore financial centres and what
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