Introduction

The project is coordinated by SOMO, whilst Christian Aid coordinates regional activities together with its partner organisations.

The global action plan includes annual global research and advocacy strategy meetings. These took place in Belem, Brazil, during the World Social Forum in 2009, in Manila, Philippines in August 2010 (coordinated by Jubilee South - Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development), and during the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal (coordinated by Tax Justice Network Africa).

Next to strategy meetings, a Toolkit was developed by project partners to encourage civil society organisation to engage in tax justice research and advocacy, and briefing papers and training materials produced on a variety of tax justice issues (see below).

Finally, close collaboration exists with advocacy, research and networking activities implemented by associate partners, such as Eurodad and the Tax Justice Network.

Partners

International project coordinator

Research Centre on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)

Global partner

Christian Aid

Associated organisations

Tax Justice Network

European network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)

Events

7-8 December 2010   Eurodad conference (Brussels, Belgium)

Conference Report [PDF, 1.0 MB] Fighting illicit flows from developing countries. What next for the EU agenda?

Research

 Research Reports

• Driving the getaway car? [PDF, 1.9 MB]

Dr. Sheila Killian, University of Limerick, Ireland, March 2011

On Ireland, tax and development

• Shifting sands [PDF, 371 kB]

Christian Aid, November 2010

Tax, transparency and multinational companies

• Paying our dues [PDF, 4.9 MB]

Christian Aid, October 2010

How tax dodging punishes the poor.

• Derailed to tax havens [PDF, 742 kB]

TJN-International, September 2010

A report on the use of tax havens by Development Finance Institutions

• Blowing the whistle [PDF, 4.6 MB]

Christian Aid, May 2010

A tax-related analysis of the financial ties of Premier League football clubs.

• Financial Secrecy Index [PDF, 88 kB]

TJN International, October 2009

Introducing the Financial Secrecy Index, an index of the various tax havens around the world.

• Where on Earth are you? [PDF, 282 kB]
  

TJN International, April 2009

A report about large corporations and the network of tax havens around the world.

• False profits: robbing the poor to keep the rich tax-free - English version [PDF; 597 kB]

Christian Aid, March 2009

• False profits: robbing the poor to keep the rich tax-free - Spanish version [PDF; 606 kB]
  

Christian Aid, March 2009

• DPRN research papers: Supporting developing countries’ ability to raise tax revenues.
  

1) International Barriers to Raising Tax Revenues
2) Raising Taxes in Developing Countries - Domestic Constraints
3) Development Assistance and Tax Revenues

• Tax havens and development [PDF, 509 kB]

SOMO, June 2008

A case study of the functions the Netherlands perform in international business as a tax haven.

Training materials

• Toolkit [PDF, 2.2 MB]

TJN-International, 2011

A toolkit for civil society, for researchers of all levels, to help anyone interested in doing tax justice research get started.

• Country-by-country reporting [Doc, 359 kB]
  

Christian Aid

A short and easy introduction to the practise of country-by-country reporting.

Automatic exchange [Doc, 188 kB]

Christian Aid

A short and easy introduction to the practise of automatic exchange.

• Introduction to corporate taxation research [PDF, 2.9 MB]

SOMO, May 2009

Introduction to corporate taxation and tax planning, including explanation of tax planning tricks and research tips.

• Comtrade training

SOMO, May 2009

This is a training for the use of Comtrade for research on transfer pricing.

• Mining companies [PDF, 5.3 MB]
  

SOMO, September 2008

Introduction to method for the financial tracking of mining companies.

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