It's been quite a week for tax justice campaigners.
We got country-by-country reporting for the extractive industries through in Europe.
Luxembourg and Austria are crumbling in the face of demands for full, automatic information exchange.
Multilateral information exchange is to be pioneered for the first time.
France has called for the eradication of tax havens.
These are policies that all have their origin in the Tax Justice Network - although countless thousands and many organisations have of course all joined in the call. But I think we have reason to be pleased.
And there is more to come next week.
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Also this week: on Tuesday the Dutch Parliament adopted a resolution asking the government to make a plan before summer on how to end the status of the Netherlands as a tax haven, where companies send their money to a fake office in the Netherlands just to avoid paying taxes, step by step. The resolution was supported by the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), which is in the government. It remains to be seen what the outcome will be, but pressure is mounting.
It’s been really great to see progress on these issues. I’ve only been taking an active interest in the issues around tax havens for a couple years, so I really applaud all the people who have been working in this area for decades 🙂 (especially when it wasn’t nearly as “sexy” as it currently is)