Today’s Top Stories from GFI: Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act Introduced in the US

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What ICIJ’s Offshore investigation Can Teach the IRS We’re Not Broke Video: How Do Billion Dollar Corporations Cheat America Out of Tax Revenue? Just How Difficult and Costly is it to Set Up an Offshore Company? Video: Understanding Offshore Secrecy ICIJ’s Massive Investigation of Offshore Tax Havens, Shell Companies, and …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: When capital flies, but corruption stays behind

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Friday March 29, 2013 No More Shifty Business: Campaigners Call for New Tax Rules Farming for Rats: Perverse Incentives and Illicit Financial Flows Illicit Wealth and Enormous Tax Dodging Fuel Inequality Task Force Recommendations to the BRICS Summit 2013 Taxcast Episode #15: March 2013 HSBC by the Numbers Clips …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: Cyprus to be Audited

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 How Well Do We Know Our Banks? Video: Inside Story – Tax Avoidance: Legality vs. Morality Russia’s Threat from Within: a Comment on Illicit Financial Flows TJN-Africa Director: Yes, Taxation Can Be a Good Thing for Developing Countries Voice of America Investigates Global Corruption, Features Work …

U.S. and Mexico Moving Toward Automatic Exchange?

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A Strong, Sustainable Future for FATCA and Tax Compliance U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission Release FCPA Guidance Manual Task Force Director Raymond Baker at the International Anti-Corruption Conference Enforcing Laws Works: HSBC Money Laundering Edition Task Force IACC Panel on Illicit Financial Flows GFI in the …

Oil, Gas, and Mining Transparency: Momentum Rises to Lift Africa’s Resource Curse

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Check out these wonderful diagrams tracking illicit financial flows!, Editor Hazel Henderson Oil, Gas, and Mining Transparency Momentum Rises to Lift Africa’s Resource Curse The New York Times (Op-Ed), September 14, 2012 By Kofi Annan Across Africa, oil, gas and minerals are being discovered more often than ever before. Nowhere …

Der Spiegel: Hundreds of Billions Flowing Illicitly Out of Greece

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 From the Task Force Blog: Der Spiegel: Hundreds of Billions Flowing Illicitly Out of Greece Featured Allied Organization: The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Illicit Financial Flows Explained: With Graphics (Part III) Why Investors Should Care About Transparency A Little Sunlight Could Help Lower the Cost …

Invitation to Seminar “US: A Tax Haven” – July 17, 2-4pm

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On behalf of New Rules for Global Finance, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the FACT Coalition, it is my pleasure to invite you to our Seminar “United States: A Tax Haven,” to be held June 17, 2012 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779  …

Senator Luger Urges Passage Of Crucial Dodd-Frank Transparency Measures

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Friday June 15, 2012 From the Task Force Blog: What Is Corruption? Senator Luger Urges Passage Of Crucial Dodd-Frank Transparency Measures Corruption, Business, Civil Society And The G20 How Tax Repatriation Helped Cause The Fall Of The Roman Empire World Bank Publishes Its Grand Corruption Database, Reveals New Data On …

GFI Calls on G8 to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows at Camp David Summit

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Click for full press release Curtailing Illegal Capital Flight Will Ensure Food Security in Developing World; Make Good on L’Aquila Commitment May 17, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today called on leaders of the G8 to concretely tackle the issue of illicit financial flows and end tax haven …

Pope Orders Cardinals to Investigate Vatican Leaks

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Money Laundering Pope Orders Cardinals to Investigate Vatican Leaks The Associated Press, April 25, 2012 Pope Benedict has set up a commission of cardinals to investigate the leaks of sensitive documents to the media alleging corruption and mismanagement in the Vatican. The documents included private letters to the pope from …