Category: Inequality and human rights

BLOG

Area more than three times the size of Greater London owned in UK by secret companies in offshore tax havens

By Nick Shaxson ■ 13 April 2016 ■ 3 min READ ■ 2 comments
BLOG

Taxing tax havens – Foreign Affairs article

By Nick Shaxson ■ 13 April 2016 ■ 2 min READ ■ 1 comments
BLOG

Oxfam: the International Finance Corporation and tax havens – new report

By John Christensen ■ 11 April 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

Why Infantino’s claims he did nothing wrong are wrong

By John Christensen ■ 6 April 2016 ■ 4 min READ
BLOG

The Panama papers – in case you missed it

By Nick Shaxson ■ 4 April 2016 ■ < 1
BLOG

Why is the CEO of IKEA Switzerland head of a UN panel on gender?

By Nick Shaxson ■ 18 March 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

Scottish Government announces historic law to end secrecy of land ownership

By Nick Shaxson ■ 16 March 2016 ■ 5 min READ ■ 1 comments
BLOG

Indonesia’s corrupt tax amnesty – how many will follow?

By Nick Shaxson ■ 16 March 2016 ■ 4 min READ ■ 1 comments
BLOG

Oxfam report: Ending the Era of Tax Havens

By Nick Shaxson ■ 14 March 2016 ■ 5 min READ
BLOG

Top rate income tax cuts: 89 percent go to men, 11 percent to women

By Nick Shaxson ■ 11 March 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

Tax haven Panama: giving the world the “middle finger”

By Nick Shaxson ■ 9 March 2016 ■ 2 min READ ■ 3 comments
BLOG

International Women’s Day: tax justice is a feminist issue, every day.

By Nick Shaxson ■ 8 March 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

How do top rate income tax cuts affect women?

By Nick Shaxson ■ 8 March 2016 ■ 3 min READ
BLOG

Switzerland’s financial secrecy brought under the human rights spotlight 

By Nick Shaxson ■ 7 March 2016 ■ 3 min READ ■ 3 comments
BLOG

UN asks IMF, World Bank, to study illicit financial flows

By Nick Shaxson ■ 4 March 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

Belgian tax treaties cost developing countries millions every year

By Nick Shaxson ■ 26 February 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

A Leak in Paradise – screening of this extraordinary documentary film about Swiss whistleblower Ruedi Elmer

By John Christensen ■ 25 February 2016 ■ < 1
BLOG

Quote of the day: South Africa’s Finance Minister

By Nick Shaxson ■ 25 February 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

New project to share tax info in the Americas

By Nick Shaxson ■ 24 February 2016 ■ < 1
BLOG

On the closure of the Argentinian think tank Cefid-AR

By Nick Shaxson ■ 24 February 2016 ■ < 1
BLOG

Global Tax Fairness: new book from Oxford University Press

By John Christensen ■ 20 February 2016 ■ 2 min READ
BLOG

Illicit financial flows: the links to peace and security concerns

By Nick Shaxson ■ 19 February 2016 ■ 2 min READ