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In March 2025, the UN Tax Committee finalised its 2025 update of the UN Model Tax Convention, a key template for bilateral tax treaties, particularly used by Global South countries. This report by the ...
Establishing a UN tax convention would make sure equitable international tax rules are established through a genuinely representative process and made legally binding. UN convention on tax can hold ...
“Just as the climate crisis and inequality are man-made, so too is the myth that we do not have the resources to address them.” Olivier de Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme ...
“The zombie tax deal was dead in the water from day one, but its years-delayed pronouncement might finally be here. Like with much of global tax rules, the US is trying to exempt itself by ...
British tax havens remain the biggest threat to countries’ public purses, while the UK tries to "kill" tax reform efforts at the UN.
US overtakes Switzerland in global ranking of financial secrecy hotbeds, Cayman leaps over both to top of the index The US has overtaken Switzerland in a global ranking of countries most complicit in ...
Following the example of Spain’s “featherlight” wealth tax on the 0.5% richest households would see countries raise $2.1 trillion a year globally Evidence shows tax reforms targeting extreme wealth ...
President Biden’s plan 1 to end the race to the bottom with a global minimum corporate tax rate of 21% can recover more than $640 billion in underpaid tax from multinational corporations each year if ...
An $21 to $32 trillion in financial assets are sitting offshore in tax havens. Due to the secrecy that pervades the tax haven system, precise numbers are hard to come by so estimates can vary. The Tax ...
A club of rich countries determining global rules on corporate tax are responsible for over two-thirds of global corporate tax abuse, reports the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2021, a ranking of countries ...
On the line is half a trillion dollars a year (to be clawed back from tax cheating multinational & the superrich) and countries' tax sovereignty.
Following the momentous passing of the resolution to begin intergovernmental discussions on a globally inclusive UN tax framework, our chief executive Alex Cobham spoke to the German Tax Justice ...