On 10 July 2024, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 56/5, establishing an open-ended intergovernmental working group mandated to explore, draft, and submit an Optional Protocol to ...

In March 2025, the UN Tax Committee finalised its 2025 update of the UN Model Tax Convention, a key template for bilateral tax treaties, particularly used by Global South countries. This report by the ...

Establishing a UN tax convention would make sure equitable international tax rules are established through a genuinely representative process and made legally binding. UN convention on tax can hold ...

Following the momentous passing of the resolution to begin intergovernmental discussions on a globally inclusive UN tax framework, our chief executive Alex Cobham spoke to the German Tax Justice ...

Poorer countries hit hardest by global tax abuse at the hands of rich countries Countries are losing a total of $483 billion in tax a year to global tax abuse committed by multinational corporations ...

British tax havens remain the biggest threat to countries’ public purses, while the UK tries to "kill" tax reform efforts at the UN.

A club of rich countries determining global rules on corporate tax are responsible for over two-thirds of global corporate tax abuse, reports the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2021, a ranking of countries ...

On the line is half a trillion dollars a year (to be clawed back from tax cheating multinational & the superrich) and countries' tax sovereignty.

The Financial Secrecy Index 2022 confirms transparency reforms are working, despite sabotage from most of the G7 countries meeting tomorrow.

US overtakes Switzerland in global ranking of financial secrecy hotbeds, Cayman leaps over both to top of the index The US has overtaken Switzerland in a global ranking of countries most complicit in ...

Countries have a historic choice to make this year’s end at the UN: stay the course on global tax with the OECD or support moving leadership on global tax to the UN. This briefing explains why ...