The Task Force's Nick Mathiason wrote about the size and scope of tax havens, how they hurt developing countries, and how to stop them in The Guardian's Comment is Free section.
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The Op-Ed looks at tax avoidance by Bain Capital in Bermuda, and argues that instead of blaming CEOs for trying to lower their tax burden, we should change the policies that allow them to do so.
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The report, Illicit Financial Flows from the Developing World Over the Decade Ending 2009, found that the developing world lost US$8.44 trillion from 2000 to 2009 to illicit financial outflows. Developing countries lost US$903 billion in 2009 alone.
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Corruption, Tax Evasion, and Poverty undermines the basic economic fabric of society. United Nations recognizes International Anti-Corruption and Human Rights on back-to-back days, because both are intimately connected.
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The challenge to world leaders at Davos is to restore faith in the financial system by implementing a manifesto for economic justiceWorld ...
· January 16, 2012
Christian Aid welcomes Ed Miliband’s determination to tackle the tax havens which are harming UK public finances but it urges him to ...
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 ...
Consultants—including some with criminal pasts—are selling the gambling center as a haven from taxes and ...
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 ...
Part 2 of 3. James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana discuss the debt problem in ...
Part 1 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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January 27, 2012
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