Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce CEO Martin Naville, Global Financial Integrity Program Legislative Director Heather Lowe and Campaign for Liberty Senior Vice President Jesse Benton on the U.S. striking a deal to get the names of some holders of secret Swiss bank accounts in an effort to get more tax revenue.
Bloomberg: Grano says UBS ignored the suggestion of selling its wealth management division.
A personal experience from the Isle of Man: “I deposited my life savings with Kaupthing Isle of Man which promised me that my money was safe in its hands. Then on 8 Ocotber 2008 it closed its doors! Now I have been reduced to near poverty. I can’t claim social security because I have a half share in a house but I can’t sell my half share. Banks on the IoM want your money and tell you anything to get it, but if they go belly up you are sunk! So, my advice to everyone is ‘don’t bank on the Isle of Man’”
FBI agents have arrested several prominent high-profile political and religious leaders throughout the state of New Jersey over an alleged corruption ring. Kelly Wallace reports from Newark.
Christian Aid: Poverty – people made it, people can end it. Share our Poverty Over vision? Join the debate here.
“A New Moment of Promise”: President Obama addresses the Parliament of Ghana in Accra on July 11, 2009.
Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director, Transparency International explains the values of accountability, integrity and transparency. OECD Forum, Paris.
A new video from Task Force member Christian Aid which asks people to take action on tax issues.
As the great and good of the accounting world gathered at the Hilton Park Lane on Thursday 21 May, to celebrate their achievements in tax-bill-minimisation, Task Force member Christian Aid thought it would take the opportunity to hand out some trophies of its own.
Public Citizen has come out with a great video demonstrating just how easy it is for someone to set up an offshore shell corporation. Indeed, it’s so easy one of their interns could do it.
The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development has launched its website. Tom Cardamone, Managing Director of the Task Force, introduces you to the goals and features of the site.
Accounting rules currently allow multinationals to wriggle out of paying billions of dollars in tax $160bn a year according to our maths money that ought to be fuelling poor countries development.
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 ...
WASHINGTON DC – South Africa announced today that it has joined the Partnership Panel of ...
February 10, 2012
LONDON - Forest dependent communities are still in the dark about how their forests are ...
February 9, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today applauded the introduction of a bill, which ...
February 7, 2012
The yawning gap between the transparency rhetoric of companies and the reality of their actions ...
February 10, 2012
In his State of the Union address less than a month ago President Obama brought ...
February 10, 2012
When the G20 signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in November ...
February 9, 2012
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