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Offshore Phantom Firms A “Hulking Presence” in Divorce Cases 22 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am
Imagine that you are trying to sort out to recover your assets during divorce proceedings, and your significant other forces you to navigate this web of offshore shell companies and trusts, often with...
Review of the World Bank Sanctions System: A Good Start But Additional Transparency Needed 21 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
Cross posted from Transparency International’s Space for Transparency Blog. The World Bank Group is currently undertaking an evaluation and review of its Sanctions System. That Sanctions System is an...
Interactions Between Small- and Large-Scale Corruption in China 15 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
Over the last year, from the symbolic to the substantive, leaders in China have shown an interest in seriously tackling the issue of corruption. These changes have included charging Bo Xilai, the powe...
Increasing [Amicable] Cooperation on Offshore Tax Evasion 8 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
There is an old proverb that goes something like this: “one finger cannot lift a pebble.” And while reducing cross-border tax evasion is not like lifting pebble—it’s more like hauling a boulder—it is ...
Income Inequality, Wealth, and Illicit Financial Flows in Asia 1 Aug 2013 | 11:16 am
In recent years wealth among the wealthiest has increased. This trend is well-documented in the United States, where commentators have noted that since 1979, the rich have become richer and the poor h...
Taxcast Episode 19: July 2013 27 Jul 2013 | 03:52 am
In the July 2013 Taxcast: We analyse the OECD’s Action Plan it says is going to tackle corporate tax avoidance. And who needs the OECD, the G8 or the G20 anyway? The Taxcast looks at working models go...
Looking Forward: Poverty in 2015 25 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
Every year the OECD Development Assistance Committee publishes a report on resource flows to fragile states. This year’s report, Fragile States: 2013 Resource flows and trends in a shifting world, pro...
G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Communiqué Released 22 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met in Moscow this weekend, following the release of the OECD’s report on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). That report, along with pieces o...
OECD BEPS report confirms the international tax system is failing rich and poor nations 19 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
Today the OECD identified 15 policy action points and created a two-year timeline that it hopes will restore trust and fairness in what it concedes has become a flawed and discredited international ta...
The Importance of Whistleblowers to Financial Transparency 18 Jul 2013 | 08:12 am
This week Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked information about the National Security Agency’s data collection program, may be allowed to leave his temporary station at the Moscow Internation...
