A new study looks at the effect of the G20 tax haven crackdown.It finds that new rules have caused at best only a modest reduction in total deposits in tax havens.
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Robert Palmer, of Task Force member Global Witness, argues that FATF should require that banks identify their customers and how they got their money, if it wants to effectively crackdown on money laundering.
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GFI Economist Sarah Freitas looks at the latest corruption scandal out of China, where top party official Bo Xilai's wife is accused of murdering a British national who may have helped them launder as much as $1.2 billion offshore.
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Task Force blogger Ann Hollingshead asks: Now that Kenya has found a wealth of oil, are they rushing too quickly to take advantage of it? She writes that if the country does not first modernize its extractive industries laws, corruption could follow.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, 41 business and civil society groups sent a letter to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
· May 5, 2012
LONDON - Global Witness is today calling on Glencore to explain potentially corrupt deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is ...
No Gaddafi assets have been returned to Libya - but that could soon change.
HONG KONG – India is playing a major role in the global crusade against tax ...
PARIS – The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development’s annual conference in Paris ...
The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development’s annual conference in Paris last week ...
Task Force Director Raymond Baker spoke to MBA students at Georgia Tech (his alma mater) ...
Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the ...
Half of the world's trade passes through tax havens. Right now, they are hiding billions ...
This video shows a discussion about beneficial ownership from the Task Force 2011 Conference in ...
Part 3 of 3. James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana discuss the debt problem in ...
The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development is a unique global coalition of civil society organizations and more than 50 governments working together to address inequalities in the financial system that penalize billions of people. Launched by Global Financial Integrity in January 2009, the Task Force advocates for greatly improved transparency and accountability in the global financial system.
The Task Force advocates five priorities – curtailment of mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership in all banking and securities accounts; automatic cross-border exchange of tax information; and harmonization of predicate offenses under anti-money laundering laws – each one focusing on transparency. Learn More…
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