US needs to implement the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) rather than the misguided focus on cash transsactions of $200 to end drug abuse, which is a $500 bn market. Real risks lie in issues such as anonymous shell companies, by @jyansura.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social see: rb.gy/cu8ona

Starbucks' Sourcing Aided $1.3B Low-Tax Profits, Report Says -Swiss tax dodge hides behind Starbucks 'ethical' sourcing... @cictar.bsky.social @sbworkersunited.org @taxjusticenet.bsky.social @icrict.bsky.social www.law360.com/tax-authorit...

🚨Urgent: The UN faces a liquidity crisis, threatening a fair global tax system! UN member states must act NOW by providing immediate, extrabudgetary funding to keep the #UNTaxConvention on track. The world is watching - let’s build a tax system that works for everyone! taxjustice.net/2025/03/12/u...

No commercial vessel should be allowed to call a port without publishing its beneficial ownership details on the public record. Hidden vessel ownership, and beneficial ownership not only enables the Russian "ghost fleet", but also IUU fishing and forced labour on fishing and merchant vessels.

@cictar.bsky.social alledges: "all of Starbucks’ coffee – at least 3% of the global coffee bean trade – is purchased via a Swiss subsidiary [...] Starbucks Coffee Trading Company Sarl, has marked up the price by a stunning 15-18% before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries" see: rb.gy/7o2ikm

Starting now at the @humanrightscouncil.bsky.social: CIEL's @lienvandamme.bsky.social is speaking at a #HRC58 side event on the landscape of #ClimateFinance, debt, tax, and illicit financial flows through a human rights lens. More info: genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/under... A 🧵👇

Land transparency is a key part of wider asset transparency, important to track down Illicit Financial Flows from illicit activity like illegal logging, crops grown on illegal land, kleptocrats and tax dodgers hiding behind secretive land ownership.

The Ocean Economy also needs to be built with transparency, integrity, and tax justice, and tackling all Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) that are associated with it. This is why vessel transparency and beneficial ownership transparency on publicly accessible registries is important to tackle abuses.

I know it's pointless to say this, but the Beneficial Ownership reporting is really simple to do. The only way it's an "absolute disaster" or "economic menace" is if you are fully aware that writing down your owners will produce criminal liability.

Happening today and excited to participate. Warwick Business School event in London 'From Baku to Belém'. Greater coherence needed between the UNFCCC and the negotiations for the UN Tax Convention to mobilise resources via internatinal tax cooperation and advancing ownership and asset transparency.

Ending enforcement of the US Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting is a win for the world of tax dodging, kleptocrats, oligarchs, financial secrecy linked to illegal fishing and logging, illegal wildlife trade, minerals and fossil fuels. Other countries need to redouble their efforts.

It has been a full year 🗓️ since the ‘Righting the Economy’ book was released by @agendapub.bsky.social - www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... 📟 Have you read it 🔎? Do you have any reflections or ideas on what should come next? I would love to hear from you!

🌍💰 Taxation isn’t just about revenue—it’s about justice. Our new brief with Shared Planet, WEDO, and @fintrco.bsky.social shows how progressive taxation can be feminist, green & decolonial, breaking silos between tax, climate, human rights & gender justice ⬇️

Was thrilled to work on this with @cesr.bsky.social @fintrco.bsky.social & the best consultant ever, Arimbi! Looking forward to taking it further through collective advocacy at the UN Tax Convention & beyond

💪 It's time for change. Together, we can demand investment in healthcare, education, and a fair economy that puts people first. 🌟 Join us on this journey to create a better tomorrow. Follow, share, and stay tuned for ways to get involved! #EndAusterity #FairEconomy #PeopleOverProfits

🚨 The #EndAusterity campaign is at #EurodadIC2025, pushing for real economic justice! 🌍💰 As global crises intensify, we must challenge austerity & demand policies that put people first. Join the conversation & take action!

🚨 🛥️ 💸 🧵 Huge new investigation from our friends at @tbij.bsky.social into how sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich may have evaded millions in tax through opaque offshore corporate structures and complex accounting practices. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... 1/5

🔷 Register for online participation: 👉 bit.ly/4hvJrqP 🟠 28 and 29 January, we are participating in the @eurodad International Conference in Barcelona, where we plan for the 4th Financing for Development (#FfD4) Conference this June-July in Sevilla. 1/3

Who bought this mansion? We don't know despite requirement for offshore companies with UK properties to declare their ultimate owners. Why? "some companies with UK property obscure their beneficial ownership because they are controlled by trusts based offshore" www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

Clamour builds in France for action on the private speculation in healthcare -- press coverage of CICTAR and @cfdt-sante-sociaux.bsky.social's latest report. La santé n'est pas à vendre ! cictar.org/news/ramsay-sant-revelations-find-echo-in-french-press

Extreme wealth is extreme control. Never has this been so clear. Well we don’t have to settle for it. In our letter to Davos leaders, 370+ millionaires & billionaires say we must draw the line. Protect ppl, planet, & democracy: rein in extreme wealth & tax us, the super rich.

The last hope for multilateralism in the field of international tax is the UN. Europe must align with the Global South against the protofascist US government now. And just to clarify: Also under the Biden administration there has never been a decision by the US to introduce the OECD minimum tax. /1

Property speculators extract €2.5 bn annually from the French health and care system, finds the new report from CICTAR and @cfdt-sante-sociaux.bsky.social That's enough to pay for the salaries of over 82,000 nurses 🤯Read the findings at cictar.org/all-research...

While many struggle to make ends meet, the wealth of the super-rich has soared. It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s another way—one that prioritises fairness, sustainability, and equality. It starts with making those at the top pay their fair share. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/40FunBq #Davos

The British Virgin Islands has announced a public consultation on introducing legitimate interest access to its beneficial ownership register. Submissions due by 28 February bvi.gov.vg/media-centre...

✨ OUT NOW ✨ We reveal almost £1 in every £10 of political donations comes from ‘unknown or questionable sources’. That's we need tighter spending rules to shine a light on dark money and hold those who abuse the system accountable. Find out more ⤵️ transparency.org.uk/report-new-r...

In the old days (when I still used twitter), I had a weekly newsletter called Oligarchy, in which I looked at what was happening in the world of financial skulduggery. I took a break to write a book, but it's back this week! Sign up this week if you'd like to get it. www.codastory.com/newsletters/

At least 65 oil tankers dropped anchor after the new US sanctions package -Reuters Five of them were off Chinese ports,7 more dropped anchor near Singapore,while others halted in the Baltic Sea and the Far East. Around 10% of the global oil tanker fleet is now subject to US sanctions reuters.com/

Amazing the efforts to try to stop the registering of info on real owners of companies in the US. It was supposed to start in January. It's been paused, unpaused & now paused again, details in @oliverbullough.bsky.social's Oligarchy newsletter, you can subscribe here www.codastory.com/newsletters/

Shell companies enable the Russian 'dark fleet' of oil tankers. Eagle S, that alledgedly damaged a sea cable off the coast of Estonia and Finland, is owned via Dubai based shell company, where tracing its beneficial owners is impossible, address given as a luxury hotel, see: tinyurl.com/2fbmmtv3

It's ultimately public access that we'd want, but legitimate access would be a step in the right direction so that we can hold companies, wealth people and asset holders accountable and trace where they got their wealth and assets, how they're transferred and how they're used.

Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies. We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0

A great tool for people wanting to follow the money!

In our newest episode of the Tax Justice Minute, Sergio Chaparro-Hernandez urges nations worldwide to support the upcoming budget approval ahead of next week’s critical vote at the UN General Assembly's Fifth Committee. #TaxJusticeMinute #UNTaxConvention youtube.com/shorts/ji0Ll...

And lets look at Benefit fraud compared to tax avoidance. If there was this (imaginary) black hole why aren’t they concentrating on getting people, corporations to pay tax? We all know who the tax dodgers are

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

This is huge! Australia sets a model for public CbC reporting, and follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) model that provides more useful information, and is better equipped for comparative analysis than the more limited EU standard, or MNC own reporting models.

Sickening to see the Assad wealth vs most Syrians. The record for recovering & returning dictator wealth is dismal, as this Swiss wealth management co. study admitted many years ago when the Arab Spring was making them nervous. (&their estimates seem extremely low!) www.fnlondon.com/articles/dic...

Latest from Trafigura's historic #corruption trial in Switzerland, where prosecutor seeks 4yr prison term for a top exec. “He could have stopped at any moment the bribery machine.” They “used Switzerland as a refuge and exploited the fragile state of Angola." www.swissinfo.ch/eng/the-wolv...

SA #G20 4 priorities by Ramaphosa: disaster resilience, debt sustainability, finance for a just energy transition, critical minerals. 3 cross-cutting TFs on: Inclusive Growth&Reduced Inequality, Food Security, AI& Data. G20 Social Forum will continue to engage stakeholders. See: tinyurl.com/dscwekwt

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day. Our message to global leaders is clear: we need unrestricted civil society participation and enhanced transparency and accountability rules at climate talks. #IACD2024 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Well done! 🙏 A win to be celebrated at today's #anticorruptionday #lobbyEU #EUsky

A massive personal thank you to everyone who promoted or invested in our community share raise. We raised a fantastic £495,000 Very excited to move forward with Phase Two of the @fairtaxfoundation.bsky.social and Fair Tax Mark in 2025 fairtaxmark.net/fair-tax-fou...

New joint investigation from @theguardian.com and @transparencyuk.bsky.social finds almost £400m in UK property owned by associates of former Bangladeshi PM, Sheikh Hasina. Bangladeshi authorities are now investigating the wealth of these figures. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nearly £6bn in suspicious funds have flowed through British OTs to buy UK properties since 2016, including £1.1bn in Kensington and Bayswater. The govt's bold plan to turn the tide on dirty money is a vital step for our communities. @transparencyuk.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4g77rzX 👇

Landmark legislation on corporate tax transparency reporting, the C in the ABC of Financial Transparency, is passed in Australia, see more here, taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju... #CBCR #BHR #CorporateTransparency #TaxTransparency #FfD #FinancialTransparency

Landmark MNC tax transparency legislation could pass the Australian Parliament today! We need transparency so everyone, everywhere can see the immense & ongoing corporate profit-shifting that steals funding for essential public services. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-re...

Is momentum with tax justice? Hot on the heels of yesterday's UN resolution triumph, we hear that Australia's parliament may be about to do a last minute deal to pass legislation for public country by country reporting by multinationals - a crucial tax transparency measure with global implications

Livestreamed/Geneva event! "Exploring the Linkages between the Human Rights Economy with and the Right to Development" 26 Nov, 15:30-16:45 CET, Room XXVII, Palais des Nations. UN SR Right to Development, Act Alliance, CIDSE, @hrw.org, @cesr.bsky.social, Franciscans Intl. Stream: tinyurl.com/yrrpe3r7

🚨 🌍 🤝 🧵 The 2024 Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) of Britain's Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories (CDOTs) is taking place now. 🌹 It's this Labour govt's first JMC, and a huge opportunity to make its mark - here are some of the issues it could take on... www.ft.com/content/67eb... 1/11