Tax Justice Network
Description
The Tax Justice Network is an organisation that believes tax and financial systems are among the most powerful tools for building a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. It works every day to inspire and equip people and governments around the world to reform, or in its own words reprogramme, their tax systems, so they work for everyone rather than a privileged few.
It carries out research and produces reports on tax and financial transparency issues. One example is a brief on beneficial ownership registers. This argues that a widespread “small data” approach, using reporting thresholds, is preventing these registers from being effective. It instead calls for a “no-threshold” approach, in which anyone holding even one share or vote in a company is recognised as a beneficial owner.
It publishes this and other research through reports, a blog and a podcast, and holds events.
The Tax Justice Network is based in Bristol, England, and lists job vacancies for people who want to work with it.
Latest news
UN Framework Convention – Roundup of the Fifth Session of Negotiations
Between 3 August and 13 August, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC) met in New York for the fifth session of negotiations. The fifth session marked the half-way point of the three year negotiation term...
11 Sep 2026
Our beneficial ownership lead and acknowledged international expert Andres Knobel has had it. As another court decision supports the ‘weaponisation of privacy’ to defeat even basic transparency, Andres argues that the lobbyists have been so successful that they have defeated the case for the...
9 Sep 2026
On 25 June 2026, the IMF published its Guidance Note for Addressing Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism Issues in Surveillance, Financial Sector Assessment Programs, and Use of Fund Resources. This Guide can help address one of the main problems of the anti-money...
18 Aug 2026
From data to policy: Building Africa’s evidence ecosystem for better tax reform
Participants at the Administrative Data and Tax Policy Analysis Workshop in Africa, Accra, Ghana (11–12 June 2026). The global financing landscape for development is changing fast. Foreign aid is falling, debt servicing costs are rising, and demands on public finances are growing. Bilateral aid...
18 Aug 2026
Under unitary taxation, multinational companies are treated as what they are: single businesses. Their global profits are aggregated, and the right to tax them is allocated among countries according to where the group’s economic activity takes place. Economic activity is usually measured using a...
3 Aug 2026
A heartfelt farewell to our dear Óscar
With disbelief I heard some days ago of the passing of Óscar Ugarteche, one of the Tax Justice Network’s long time senior advisers. This mournful news left me dismayed. The loss of an inspiring person always brings sadness even to those of us who were not fortunate enough to meet him in person...
17 Jul 2026
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