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John Christensen ■ TJN Annual Discussion Workshop on Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens – programme
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Discussion Workshop
Corruption and the Role of Tax Havens
#tjn16
City University, London, 28th – 29th April 2016
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB
FINAL PROGRAMME
DAY ONE – 28th April 2016
08h30 – 09h00 Registration and coffee
09h00 – 09h30 Welcome, introductions and framing:
Corruption and the role of tax havens, after Panamania
Prof. Anastasia Nesvetailova (Director, City Political Economy Research Centre, CITYPERC)
John Christensen (Director, Tax Justice Network)
09h30 – 11h00 Session One: Corruption and the role of (UK) tax havens
Facilitator: Liz Nelson (Tax Justice Network)
Discussant: Ronen Palan (City)
Robert Mwanyumba (East African Tax and Governance Network) – Corruption Wasting Human Rights [Slides]
Mary Young (University of West England) – Criminogenic risk factors in the UK’s financial secrecy jurisdictions
Petr Janský (Charles University, Prague; joint paper with Alex Cobham and Markus Meinzer, TJN) – Financial secrecy since the financial crisis, and the UK’s secrecy network
11h00 – 11h30 Coffee
11h30 – 13h00 Session Two: Scale and structures
Facilitator: Moran Harari (Tax Justice Network)
Discussant: David Quentin (IDS/TJN)
Arjan Reurink (Max Planck Institute) – Contextualizing Financial Corruption: Financialization and the Criminogenic Structures of Finance Capitalism
Verónica Grondona (CEFID-AR, with Nicole Bidegain Ponte and Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, both DAWN) – The role of financial secrecy jurisdictions in undermining gender justice and women’s human rights
Michael Woodiwiss (University of West England) – The Evolution of Organized Crime Control and an International Anti-Money Laundering Regime
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 15h30 Session Three: On the dark side
Facilitator: Markus Meinzer (Tax Justice Network)
Discussant: Prem Sikka (AABA, Essex)
Jan Fichtner (University of Amsterdam – CORPNET Project) – The Anatomy of the Cayman Islands Offshore Financial Center: Anglo-America, Japan, and the Role of Hedge Funds [link removed as under consideration with journal]
May Hen (University of Cambridge) – Gatekeepers for global wealth: a fiscal sociology of Caribbean offshore financial centres
15h30 – 16h00 Tea break
16h00 – 17h30 Session Four: The Secrecy Professionals
Facilitator: Andres Knobel (Tax Justice Network)
Discussant: Richard Murphy (City; Tax Research UK)
Sophie Lemaître (Univ. Rennes 1) – Hiding proceeds of corruption and IFFs through the abuse of Law – the extractive industries example
Chris Jones (joint paper with Yama Temouri, both Aston Business School, & Alex Cobham, TJN) – Tax Haven Networks and the Role of the Big 4 Accountancy Firms
18h00 – 20h00 Royal Society for Africa & Tax Justice Network public event:
Illicit financial flows after ‘Panamania’: Seizing the moment
Lecture theatre ELG03, Drysdale Building
DAY TWO – 29th April 2016
09h30 – 10h30 Session Five: Stories of secrecy
Facilitator: George Turner (Finance Uncovered)
Discussant: Nick Shaxson (Tax Justice Network)
Sigrun Davidsdottir (journalist) – Iceland: The ‘offshorisation’ of an economy
Richard Smith (journalist) – On the trail of Scottish LPs
10h30 – 11h00 Oxfam & Tax Justice Network Essay Prize Presentations:
Tax justice and human rights
11h00 – 11h30 Coffee / tea break
11h30 – 13h00 Session Six: Corporate tax
Facilitator: Naomi Fowler (Tax Justice Network)
Lauri Finér (with Matti Ylonen, both University of Helsinki) – Laws for Nothing and Ores for Free? A Case Study of Tax Planning in the Finnish Mining Sector [Slides]
Anders Pedersen (Natural Resource Governance Institute) – Assessing the presence of tax haven based companies in extractives contracts – establishing a baseline contracts available as open data
Omri Mariam (UC Irvine School of Law) – The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 15h00 Session Seven: The Price of Offshore, 2016
Facilitator: John Christensen (Tax Justice Network)
Discussant: James Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana (U.Mass), tbc
James Henry (U. Columbia) – The Price of Offshore: New numbers (40MB download)
15h00 – 16h00 Session Eight: Battlelines in the fight against financial secrecy
Moderator – Alex Cobham (Tax Justice Network)
Dereje Alemayehu (Global Alliance for Tax Justice): a global tax body
Steve Goodrich (Transparency International): transparency vs corruption
Nick Mathiason (Finance Uncovered): journalistic frontiers
Sol Picciotto (BEPS Monitoring Group): BEPS and transparency
Rosie Sharpe (Global Witness): beneficial ownership
16h00 Workshop ends
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