Episode 2 of The Corruption Diaries podcast is out! Richard Allen discovers the UK’s underground music scene and starts exploring his love of music by attending free festivals all over England. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Season Two, weekly episodes

“Deregulation eliminates safeguards, it puts costs onto citizens and taxpayers, creates uncertainty, discourages investment.” 👏👏 Can't say truer than that ✅ Good to see some pushback on the deregulatory language coming from senior EU officials recently. www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

OECD countries, including EU countries & the UK, just forfeited to Trump their sovereign right to tax businesses operating within their own borders. This is an alarming subjugation of state sovereignty – and yet it is being spun as a landmark tax deal. taxjustice.net/press/oecd-c...

The OECD has today announced that it is gutting its global minimum tax in order to exempt US multinationals - locking in the billions in lost revenues that we all suffer from their tax abuse. Our politicians have bent the knee to Donald Trump, & we will all pay for it taxjustice.net/press/oecd-c...

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

What Polanski has said is that taxing the assets of the richest *1%* would enable the government to *fund universal free childcare, special needs education and rural bus routes.* That's a million miles from 'Sensible' Jack Dromey's grotesque misrepresentation.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

100 million children are going hungry this Christmas. Elon Musk can give every child in the world a $90 gift card, creating 2 billion smiles and still be the richest man alive. What do you say, Elon - gift 44% of your wealth? We’d also settle for a 2% #WealthTax c.org/jnnZhmp6J4

On his recent Dublin trip @alexcobham.bsky.social of @taxjustice.net wrote an insightful blog for us He attended both our tax justice event and a contrasting one hosted by the Irish Tax Institute and Harvard Centre for International Development #spéirgorm www.financialjustice.ie/news/blog/a-...

Please join us in signing this petition for just a little bit of #TaxJustice this holiday season...

Dear Elon Musk, wishing you become the world’s richest man this Xmas by buying every child a $90 gift card with half your wealth. You’d stop 100m children from going hungry, create 2bn smiles & still be the richest man alive! But we’d also settle for a 2% #WealthTax Sign the card: c.org/jnnZhmp6J4

One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️

✨For the first time, every government sat together to shape global tax rules via the #UNTaxConvention. From climate & debt to human rights & democracy, #TaxJustice became central to tackling today’s crises. Here are the moments that shaped our year: taxjustice.net/2025/12/11/2...

It has been quite a year for #TaxJustice!

💡New report: Bled Dry: How Tax Abuse, Illicit Financial Flows & Debt Affect Women and Girls in Africa. These systemic failures are draining African countries of the resources needed to fund #GenderEquality, public services & #ClimateJustice. 👉https://bit.ly/3XM0ihk #UNTaxConvention

🚀 Launching Admin Data for Tax Justice! Join us for the virtual unveiling of our new global database mapping academic and policy research that uses administrative tax data. Don’t miss it — register now to be part of this global initiative! ✍️ taxjustice.net/events/admin...

Join us on Monday for the launch of... Admin Data for Tax Justice ! 🥳

They always get the criminals on tax stuff in the end.

The tax justice approach to Palestine has road to run, and the avenue of revoking incentives may prove an important tool to end the genocide.

NEW: Swiss politicians are pushing to *revoke* UEFA's tax-exempt status. UEFA got exemption for "promoting peace" — which officials argue isn't being met due to UEFA taking no action against the Israeli Football Association. Am told *45* of 200 Swiss MPs are already signed on.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

3/ On top of taking ALL the revenue, FIFA demands tax exemptions from hosts, and in the bidding process for 2026, President Trump granted FIFA full exemptions on all this revenue. Of course Trump being Trump, he could reverse this decision at any moment.

It's the "MAGA-FIFA World Cup", Infantino has said he supports Trump's agenda, and Trump may be awarded a new FIFA Peace Prize. Why all this fawning? Well one plausible explanation is that Trump knows the World Cup is a complete swindle. A mini 🧵 to explain.. apnews.com/article/dona...

The Corruption Diaries @taxjustice.net podcast series 2 starts 2 Jan: @the-rising-moon.bsky.social had his own record label, managing&touring with bands like Porcupine Tree. But he unexpectedly became a campaigner, taking on tax dodgers&the authorities from his garden shed. On most podcast platforms

They need to turn this video over to the ICC Prosecutor's office

if this happens, it will be the biggest international law news in decades and will be immediately followed by several of the hardest fought sets of litigation you have ever seen. time to stop ignoring tax

Rule 1 of the global tax system is you tax multinational corporations where they SAY their profits are, not where they MAKE profit. Most countries backed flipping this 100-year-old rule in recent UN tax talks, to finally end the era of global tax abuse #UNtaxConvention taxjustice.net/press/un-inc...

🌍✊ It’s time for a fairer tax system: ‘pay-where-you-play’, not ‘pay-where-you-say’. #UNTaxConvention Check out the latest update to the Corporate Tax Haven Index taxjustice.net/press/multin... #TaxJustice #PayWhereYouPlay #CTHI

The new Corporate Tax Haven Index is out!

🚨💸Multinationals get an ave 63% tax discount on IP-generated profits, the equivalent of workers paying no income tax for 7 months. Patent box rules cost countries billions & fuel global profit shifting. It’s time for pay-where-you-play taxation with a #UNTaxConvention. bit.ly/3KhmNaR

OPINION: Until the industry pays a fair price and governments enforce real accountability, every bar of chocolate remains an unpaid moral debt.

Financial secrecy rocks democracies, @taxjustice.net Financial Secrecy Index finds - and the increasingly corrupt United States is at the head of the pack taxjustice.net/press/financ...

A Swiss lawyer and former executive of Mossack Fonseca, the embattled Panamanian law firm at the center of ICIJ’s #PanamaPapers investigation, will face court in Germany next year, according to news outlets ZDF, Tamedia and @derstandard.at. Read the latest:

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

The £12 billion the UK govt expects to raise by freezing workers' income tax rates could instead be raised by exercising an anti-tax cheating transparency power the UK has had since 2016 but has never used. taxjustice.net/press/uks-un...

Deloitte is at it again. To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.

If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

Relatable content from The Times

Great report from @econchange.bsky.social - the UK has made £550bn LESS public investment than the OECD average in the 20 years up to 2024. No wonder our public services are creaking. An increase in public investment would improve the economy and CUT debt/GDP. drive.google.com/file/d/1BMUy...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Tax Billionaires. Tax Polluters. Fix Inequality. Fix the Climate!⁠ Ahead of the Autumn Budget, we joined groups from across our movement to send a message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Another reason to love creole and patois languages. #DigitalMarronage #Fugitivity #AI

TIL that the UK govt employs almost 4000 civil servants to work on its property-valuation system for taxation. And one of their core jobs is guessing what a new house might have been worth if it had been built in 1991. Stupid, stupid country.

Enjoyed this thought-provoking thread on AI and cognition...

a British government looting refugees displaced from former colonial protectorates now is it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social

It's clear this idea has wide support. An objective International Panel on Inequality with experts from around the world to advise governments, examine current inequality data and look for areas that need more research. Similar to the IPCC. The time is now. apnews.com/article/glob...