Alex Cobham ■ Crowdsourcing request: “We are not a tax haven!”
Over the years, we’ve chronicled the tax haven denial of many secrecy jurisdictions, even building a partial list of those who have publicly claimed “We are not a tax haven!” Now, at the prompting of tax twitter (notably Mary Cosgrove and Stephanie Johnston, with honourable mentions to Aisling Donoghue, Toby Quantrill and Richard Smith), we thought we’d have a go at crowdsourcing a more full listing.
This is being done as part of the Open Data for Tax Justice project which TJN and our partners at Open Knowledge International have set up with Omidyar Network support, to which new members are always welcome (our major focus at the moment is on the creation of a public database of country-by-country reporting – on which your views are sought).
Here’s the one minute version of why tax haven denials may be useful information:
Update: Jonathan Gray suggests two helpful resources: the twitter feed, and search results, for “not a tax haven”.
If you’re up for getting involved, great! Here’s a form where anyone can submit details of any claims of #WANATH (“We’re not a tax haven”). We’ll collate the responses and then publish a full list, perhaps even knock up a world map if there’s enough data to be meaningful.
Thank you in advance for your help, and for circulating this far and wide. You can also find the form at https://goo.gl/forms/qHRskesmvryYluTj2.
Related articles
Indicator deep dive: Public country by country reporting
Profit shifting by multinational corporations: Evidence from transaction-level data in Nigeria
5 June 2024
Policy research conference: How a UN Tax Convention can address inequality in Europe and beyond
Inequality Inc.: How the war on tax fuels inequality and what we can do about it
New Tax Justice Network podcast website launched!
The Corruption Diaries: our new weekly podcast
Overturning a 100 year legacy: the UN tax vote on the Tax Justice Network podcast, the Taxcast
The People vs Microsoft: the Tax Justice Network podcast, the Taxcast
Bahamas: Submission to the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights in support of the country visit to the Bahamas
7 November 2023