The Task Force for Financial Integrity and Economic Development released a report detailing a new system of accounting for multinational corporations (MNCs) designed to increase transparency and curtail tax evasion.
Anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International UK, published this June 2009 report that delves deep into the complex web of legal and regulatory armoury the UK employs to counter money laundering.
This report by Gideon Benari describes, in plain language, the technical processes and structures of two commonly used tax avoidance schemes – transfer pricing and outward domestication. Both involve multinational corporations shifting profits across borders.
A study on the implementation of the Summit of Americas‘ mandates
Global Witness’ new report Undue Diligence names some of the major banks who have done business with corrupt regimes. By accepting these customers, banks are assisting those who are using state assets to enrich themselves or brutalise their own people.
Transparency International (TI) Progress Report tracks the enforcement status of OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (also known as OECD Anti-Bribery Convention) in signatory countries. This year saw the 4th report, documenting the advances and obstacles in convention implementation.
This report looks at how poor countries have suffered from the same combination of secrecy and lax regulation that triggered the current international crisis.
Written by experts for a general readership, this provides an excellent introduction to the associated problems of capital flight, tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax competition. It discusses the policy failures that have brought us here, and proposes a range of practical solutions to this global crisis.
Mining companies routinely deprive African nations of revenue that could be used to combat poverty. This report details how Sierra Leone recently earnt only US$9-10m from mineral exports of US$179m.
Briefing paper on how ‘capital flight’ is diverting scarce resources away from developing countries.
Paying as little tax as possible, regardless of the social consequences, has for many become an acceptable way of doing business. This paper considers how financial systems allow practices such as ‘trade mispricing’ to continue
A report by Tax Justice Network: A brief explanation based on the work of tax expert Richard Murphy of why country-by-country (CbC) reporting could change the world.
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