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The Tax Justice Network (TJN) is a British advocacy group [2] consisting of a coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about tax avoidance, tax competition, and tax havens. [ 3 ] Activity
Shaxson first began working for the Tax Justice Network in 2006. His first book was Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. [11] In 2011 he wrote Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World. [12] [13] In 2018, he published The Finance Curse: How global finance is making us all poorer. [14]
His panel's 2015 report [5] found that Africa loses $50 billion a year due to tax evasion and other illicit practices and its 50-year losses top a trillion dollars. Furthermore, he said, the Seychelles , an African nation, is the fourth most mentioned tax haven in the documents.
The FSI showed jurisdictions like the U.S. and Germany, despite high tax rates, are large contributors to global financial secrecy, [5] however, this is often misinterpreted as implying that the US and Germany are "tax havens"; for example, foreign corporates do not move to the U.S. or Germany to avoid tax.
A Financial Secrecy Index produced by the Tax Justice Network ranks Switzerland and the Cayman Islands as some of the top places for hiding private wealth, with $21 trillion to $32 trillion worth ...
According to its website, the members of the coordinating committee responsible for its operations are Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, Christian Aid, Eurodad, Fundación SES, Global Financial Integrity, Global Witness, LATINDADD, Tax Justice Network, Tax Justice Network Africa, and Transparency International.
The ten countries and territories that were at the top of the Financial Secrecy Index 2015, an index established by the NGO Tax Justice Network and that also takes into account the size of the transactions in a tax haven, were categorized as follows: Lebanon had not completed Phase 1. Switzerland and the UAE had completed Phase 1 and were ...
Irene Ovonji-Odida is currently a Commissioner on the Independent Commission for Reform of Corporate Income Tax (ICRICT), and a member of the South Center Tax Steering Initiative, Tax Justice Network Africa Advisory Board and Pan African Lawyers Union task force on Illicit Financial Flows.