In 2009 I directed the first ever iteration of the Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index. It has come a long way since then, in
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The Big 4, country-by-country reporting and where we go from here
I thought it worth sharing this Twitter narrative from Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network on the significance of the Big 4’s endorsement of
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Another Great Depression or tax justice and transparency? The January 2020 Taxcast
The Taxcast kicks off the new decade with: the French strikes — tax justice and pensions vs financialisation the EU countries who’ve missed the deadline
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BEPS Policy Failure – The Case of EU Country-By-Country Reporting
I argued for years that we needed country-by-country reporting. We did. We still do. And so far we have not got it. The only public
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The December Taxcast
This month the Tax Justice Network asks — what’s going on with our pre-school childcare and elderly care home services? We take a long hard
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The Global Tax 50 is a great credit to tax justice
I have to admit I failed to make it to the International Tax Review Global Tax Top 50 this year. I have been in it
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The “Race to the Bottom” and how it makes us all poorer
New from the Tax Justice Network this morning, and well worth watching, my old friend John Christensen talks economics and tax and justice with Naomi
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Beating financial secrecy: an explainer
I admit I do not agree with the Tax Justice Network simplistic view that tax funds government spending (because it doesn’t) but that apart this
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Uncounted: The November Taxcast
This month on the Tax Justice Network Taxcast TJN CEO Alex Cobham talks about his new book The Uncounted on the politics of counting. Who’s missing from the stats, from the
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