A global coalition of civil society organizations and governments working to address inequalities in the financial system that penalize billions of people.
The Coalition advocates five core recommendations to improve transparency and accountability:
1 Curtailment of mispricing in trade imports and exports – this includes both abusive transfer pricing between multinational enterprises and intentionally mispriced transactions between unrelated parties;
2 Country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations;
3 Transparency of beneficial ownership of corporations and trusts;
4 Automatic cross-border exchange of tax information on personal and business accounts; and
5 Harmonization of predicate offenses under anti-money laundering laws across all Financial Action Task Force cooperating countries.
The winner of the Guardian's online contest to solve the mystery of Blair's finances is Richard Murphy, a crusading accountant from Tax Research UK. His entry unearthed the small print of the Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008 to reveal that Blair ha
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"At last, a readable - indeed gripping - book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens" - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia Treasure Islands is published at the start of a seismic shift in thinking about a scandal and a system that has gone almost u
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 24 October 2011: "What has driven the world in such a problematic direction for its economy and also for peace? First and foremost, an economic liberalism that spurns rules and controls. Economic liberalism is a theoretical system of thought, a form of “economic apriorism” that purports to derive laws for how markets function from theory, these being laws of capitalistic development, while exaggerating certain aspects of markets. An economic system of thought that sets down a priori the laws of market functioning and economic development, without measuring them against reality, runs the risk of becoming an instrument subordinated to the interests of the countries that effectively enjoy a position of economic and financial advantage. "
James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global issues. James served as Chief Economist at the international consultancy firm McKinsey & Co and as an investigative journalist his work has appeared in numerous publications like Forbes, The Nation, and the The New York Times. He was the lead researcher of the recently released report titled “'The Price of Offshore Revisited.'
Ken Zinn, Political Director of National Nurses United: "...we have support. I will just note that President Obama, who thus far has not come out in support of this Robin Hood tax, two days ago called Mitt Romney the reverse Robin Hood (which is an interesting appropriation of the language of our campaign), called him Romney Hood. And that's funny. Of course, it's true, but it's also not enough. We need the president to actually be Robin Hood himself, not just accuse his opponent of being the reverse Robin Hood. And he needs to come out and support this tax, because it's not only good policy, it's good politics as well.