beneficial ownership Archive

Intervention at EU Parliament on the Unshell Directive: Full text
August 4, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Tax Justice Network made an intervention at the European Parliament’s Expert meeting on the Unshell Directive on 12 July 2022. The intervention was presented by Moran Hariri, lead researcher indices at the Tax Justice Network, on the behalf of the organisation. The full text of the intervention is shared below. First of

Reforms to FATF Recommendation 25 should reflect fact not fiction.
July 28, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is in the process of reforming Recommendation 25 on beneficial ownership transparency of trusts and other legal arrangements. The Tax Justice Network is publishing this report which explains the risks created by trusts and why these risks justify the call for increased transparency. The call for trust

Beneficial ownership transparency: how to fix a serious secrecy loophole in the automatic exchange system
April 26, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Automatic exchange of bank account information is an important transparency tool to address tax evasion and other tax issues. It could also be used to tackle other types of illicit financial flows including money laundering, corruption, or the financing of terrorism, if only the OECD were to stop restricting its use for tax

Ukraine, Russia: the finance curse and the resource curse goes hand in hand with financial secrecy
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The tragedy that’s unfolding now with Russia and Ukraine is the consequence of the resource curse and the finance curse, hand in hand with ‘Butler Britain’ and other tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions. All roads lead back to global financial secrecy and all the things we at the Tax Justice Network have been

Rethinking Limited Liability: Beneficial Ownership Transparency to Reform the Liability System, working paper
November 10, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I am sharing a working paper which I, Andres Knobel have written, for which I welcome feedback, please send to [email protected]. Here’s a summary below, and you can read the full paper here. Rethinking Limited Liability: Beneficial Ownership Transparency to Reform the Liability System Limited liability refers to the right to cap a