A global coalition of civil society organizations and governments working to address inequalities in the financial system that penalize billions of people.
The Coalition advocates five core recommendations to improve transparency and accountability:
1 Curtailment of mispricing in trade imports and exports – this includes both abusive transfer pricing between multinational enterprises and intentionally mispriced transactions between unrelated parties;
2 Country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations;
3 Transparency of beneficial ownership of corporations and trusts;
4 Automatic cross-border exchange of tax information on personal and business accounts; and
5 Harmonization of predicate offenses under anti-money laundering laws across all Financial Action Task Force cooperating countries.
Crocodyl is a project to build a database of corporate profiles by using a global network of researchers, journalists and nonprofit organization members with experience researching corporations in specific industries and issue areas.
G20 Finance ministers and central bankers meet in Busan, Korea on June 4-5 ... Their leaders have agreed that banks should be made to pay for bailing out the sector in a future crisis so they can no longer believe they are "too big to fail" or that taxpay
World Bank paper on "...those economic activities and the income derived from them that circumvent or otherwise avoid government regulation, taxation or observation." "The authors find that the driving forces of the shadow economy are an increased burden
För mig är det en gåta att det i ett och samma marknadsliberala huvud går att kritisera finanskapitalismens kortsiktighet - och samtidigt förorda att samma finanskapitalism tillåts annektera än större samhällsytor.
21 September 2010, Japan, Belgium and France brought together the most eminent figures committed to innovative financing for development during the United Nations MDG Summit. Comprising 60 countries as well as the main international organisations and NGOs
Writing about India's booming economic performance and growth potential has become its own cottage industry over the last several years. Indeed, a report out this week predicts that India will become the world's fastest growing economy by 2012 and, by 203
"At last, a readable - indeed gripping - book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens" - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia Treasure Islands is published at the start of a seismic shift in thinking about a scandal and a system that has gone almost u
Tom/Kim Lindström 2008, "Avslutsanonymitet, förvaltarregister, hedgefonder och värdepapperisering av skräplån har liksom många andra ”finansinnovationer” vanligen rötterna på andra sidan Atlanten. Ofta passar de illa i våra öppna och demokratiska nordiska
The book-entry register (hallintarekisteri; förvaltarregister). Article by Matti Niemi in Taloussanomat 2009. " “Finns evade taxes through the use of foreign bank accounts, businesses based in tax havens and the book-entry register (hallintarekisteri).
Review of Shaxon's "Treasure Islands" and "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson