U.S. Senate Report: Tackle Money Laundering to Curtail Drug Trafficking
· May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC / LONDON – A bipartisan Congressional report published Thursday by the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Senate Drug ...
In April 2013′s Taxcast: ‘offshore leaks’ blows the lid off secrecy for sale, the G20 endorse greater transparency (but let’s not get too excited), Luxembourg agrees to lift its banking secrecy, Austria next? And the Taxcast takes a look at fake foreign direct investment.
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A new investigation by Global Witness today reveals the systemic corruption and illegality at the heart of government in Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state.
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Global Financial Integrity's new report, Russia: Illicit Financial Flows and the role of the underground economy, estimates that Russia lost $211.5 billion to crime, corruption, and tax evasion from 1994-2011.
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The Task Force, with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, will host its first Asia regional conference, Financial Transparency: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries, at New Delhi on April 3, 2013.
Read Full Story· May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC / LONDON – A bipartisan Congressional report published Thursday by the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Senate Drug ...
· May 10, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) lauded former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Africa Progress Panel (APP), which he chairs, ...
Below the jump: a fantastic infographic on how money is hidden by large U.S. corporations ...
A group of 41 businesses and nonprofits sent a letter to every member of Congress ...
NEW DELHI: Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on Friday called on leaders of the G8 bloc ...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the most sweeping financial law enacted ...
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Explaining the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International
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…
When I lived in Argentina in the mid 1990s, most of our friends still acutely remembered ...
May 22, 2013
Do you care about stamping out corruption, money laundering and tax dodging? The Financial Transparency Coalition ...
May 21, 2013
The solutions to problems are often implicit in the way they are framed. If I tell ...
May 15, 2013
Below the jump: a fantastic infographic on how money is hidden by large U.S. corporations in ...
May 13, 2013