Tax Justice Network

01/08/2026

The UN is planning to change where multinational corporations pay tax (for the better). Find out how this will impact your country in our new report with PSI - Public Services International out tomorrow.

31/07/2026

The UN is planning on changing where the biggest corporations pay tax (for the better). Find out how this will impact your country in our new report with PSI - Public Services International, out this Sunday.

23/07/2026

⏰Only one week left to submit your papers!

📢Call for Papers - Mapping illicit finance: Launching the global dashboard of illicit finance vulnerabilities

We are hosting a one-day workshop at , on, 17 September 2026, to mark the conclusion of the project "A Dynamic Global Dashboard of Illicit Finance Vulnerabilities" and to launch the new global dashboard itself.

We're inviting researchers and practitioners working on illicit financial flows to submit contributions on topics including:
🔹 Measurement of IFF risk and vulnerability
🔹 Offshore investment structures and sanctioned financial networks
🔹 Beneficial ownership and ultimate-actor analysis
🔹 Risk-based tools for prioritising transparency reforms (beneficial ownership registers, exchange of information, country-by-country reporting)

Confirmed speakers: Haberly - , Palanský - & , Palan - , @[N0aqMw6nYx] - , @[nwWikOw8F5] - .

Both completed studies and work in progress are welcome, and we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers. No registration fee, places are limited.

📅 Submission deadline: 31 July | Decisions by early August

Details and submission form: https://taxjustice.net/events/mapping-illicit-finance-launching-the-global-dashboard-of-illicit-finance-vulnerabilities/

17/07/2026

A heartfelt farewell to Óscar Ugarteche — economist, intellectual, activist and our long time senior adviser

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...

15/07/2026

🧩 The information needed to trace illicit wealth often already exists. The challenge is bringing it together.

A land registry may know who legally owns a property. A tax authority may know its value. A bank may have verified the customer. A public notary may have recorded the transaction. A financial intelligence unit may hold intelligence on suspicious activity.

Individually, each holds part of the story. Together, they can reveal who really owns, controls or benefits from real estate.

Our new report explores how countries can:
🔹 Better connect information held by different authorities and institutions.
🔹 Improve access to ownership information for competent authorities.
🔹 Strengthen cross-border exchange of information.
🔹 Build integrated real estate transparency systems that support investigations into money laundering, corruption, tax abuse and sanctions evasion.

Following depends not only on collecting information, but on ensuring it can be found, connected and used when it matters most.

👉 Read the report here: https://taxjustice.net/reports/integrating-the-collection-use-and-exchange-of-real-estate-ownership-information/

14/07/2026

📢We often ask how to finance gender equality. We ask far less often why so much existing wealth remains beyond the effective reach of taxation.

As global discussions begin on what should succeed the 2030 Agenda, one question deserves greater attention: why do governments continue to lose so much of the revenue they already generate?

The United Nations estimates that achieving gender equality by 2030 requires an additional US$360 billion every year. Yet countries lose an estimated US$492 billion annually to global tax abuse, while governments could raise up to US$2.6 trillion each year through more effective and progressive taxation of extreme wealth and multinational corporations.

Taken together, these figures challenge the idea that today's financing gaps are inevitable. They point instead to political choices embedded in tax rules, international agreements and the governance of cross-border wealth.
Those choices shape far more than public revenues. They determine who contributes, who benefits, and who bears the costs when governments cannot finance public goods. Those costs are not distributed evenly. They are shifted onto women through both paid and unpaid labour, allowing unequal economic systems to sustain themselves without confronting the structural inequalities on which they depend.

✍️ In our latest blog, Bemnet Agata explores why public finance is feminist terrain—and why tax justice is indispensable to gender justice.

🔗Read the blog: https://taxjustice.net/2026/07/14/public-finance-is-feminist-terrain/

14/07/2026

🏠 Who really owns the world's real estate?

Behind a single property can sit layers of companies, trusts and other legal vehicles, making it difficult to identify the person who ultimately owns, controls or benefits from it.

Our new report, Beneficial Ownership of Real Estate Around the World, assesses 141 jurisdictions to understand how countries are addressing this challenge and where important transparency gaps remain.
Key findings include:
🔹 Only 40 of 117 jurisdictions with beneficial ownership registration laws require foreign legal vehicles holding local real estate to disclose their beneficial owners.
🔹 Only seven jurisdictions provide free, public, online access to real estate ownership information.
🔹 Despite significant progress in beneficial ownership transparency, major loopholes continue to leave real estate vulnerable to secrecy.

From comparative analysis to practical policy recommendations, the report offers a roadmap for strengthening beneficial ownership transparency around the world.

👉 Read the report here: https://taxjustice.net/reports/beneficial-ownership-of-real-estate-around-the-world/

13/07/2026

📢 Call for Papers - Mapping illicit finance: Launching the global dashboard of illicit finance vulnerabilities

We are hosting a one-day workshop at City St George's, University of London, 17 September 2026, to mark the conclusion of the project "A Dynamic Global Dashboard of Illicit Finance Vulnerabilities" and to launch the new global dashboard itself.

We're inviting researchers and practitioners working on illicit financial flows to submit contributions on topics including:
🔹 Measurement of IFF risk and vulnerability
🔹 Offshore investment structures and sanctioned financial networks
🔹 Beneficial ownership and ultimate-actor analysis
🔹 Risk-based tools for prioritising transparency reforms (beneficial ownership registers, exchange of information, country-by-country reporting)

Confirmed speakers: Daniel Haberly (University of Sussex ), Miroslav Palanský (Charles University & Tax Justice Network), Ronen Palan (City St George's), Moran Harari (Tax Justice Network), Tijmen Tuinsma (Tax Justice Network).

Both completed studies and work in progress are welcome, and we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers. No registration fee, places are limited.

📅 Submission deadline: 31 July | Decisions by early August

Details and submission form: https://taxjustice.net/events/mapping-illicit-finance-launching-the-global-dashboard-of-illicit-finance-vulnerabilities/

13/07/2026

🏠 Real estate has become one of the world's favourite places to hide illicit wealth.

Companies, trusts and other legal vehicles can obscure who ultimately owns or benefits from property, making it harder for authorities to tackle money laundering, corruption, tax abuse and sanctions evasion.

We have published two complementary reports that examine both the transparency gaps and the reforms needed to close them.

📘 Beneficial Ownership of Real Estate Around the World assesses 141 jurisdictions to reveal how well countries can identify the real people behind property ownership—and where important loopholes remain.

🧩 Integrating the Collection, Use and Exchange of Real Estate Ownership Information explores how governments can better collect, connect and exchange ownership information so authorities can more effectively trace illicit financial flows.

Together, the reports provide one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of the legal frameworks, data infrastructure and international cooperation needed to make real estate transparency work in practice.

👉 Read the blog and explore both reports:
📰 Blog:https://taxjustice.net/2026/07/07/new-tax-justice-network-reports-on-real-estate-transparency/
🏠 Beneficial Ownership of Real Estate Around the World:https://taxjustice.net/reports/beneficial-ownership-of-real-estate-around-the-world/
🧩 Integrating the Collection, Use and Exchange of Real Estate Ownership Information: https://taxjustice.net/reports/integrating-the-collection-use-and-exchange-of-real-estate-ownership-information/

08/07/2026

🔜 🔵 One month to go until the next round of negotiations on the .

The outcome of these talks will affect all of us, wherever we live, and help shape international tax rules for generations to come.

Before negotiations resume in August, explore our latest analysis, revisit what emerged from the previous sessions, and follow the issues that will define the next round.

Our UN tax convention hub brings together explainers, analysis and updates throughout the negotiations.

👉Explore it here: https://taxjustice.net/topics/un-tax-convention/