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📢 Upcoming Global South-led #UNTaxConvention Webinar 🇺🇳The Start of the Negotiations for a UN Framework Convention on Tax: Maximising Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges 📅 Thursday, 24 July 🕥 2pm CEST 🗣️ English, Spanish, & French 📍 Register now: bit.ly/44IZhcM
Packing our bags, heading to Sevilla for the UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, where we expect a lot of EU ministers to give speeches about how we need to support "investors" to finance development. Those "investors" could start by paying tax #TaxJustice #UNTaxConvention
Just so you know: Tariff war = yet another burden on lower income countries struggling with a debt crisis
Tim Jones@tim-jones6.bsky.social · last yr.US tariffs will intensify the external debt crisis. For 20 lower-income countries with highest external debt payments: - average tariffs of 18% - 'weaker' dollar not giving any respite - bond yields up 1 percentage point - biggest impact falls in commodity prices debtjustice.org.uk/blog/us-tari...
Pros of a UN Tax Convention, from @toveryding.bsky.social @eurodadnews.bsky.social: ✔️ Fairer, more inclusive space (OECD is ruled by wealthy countries). ✔️ While topics like climate and human rights are addressed at the UN, financing aspects are missing. ✔️ Strengthen accountability and transparency.
1/ Yesterday, @belgiummfa.bsky.social, @11.be & @cncd.be co-organised a roundtable in the lead-up to the Financing for Development Summit (FfD 4), happening end of June in 🇪🇸 Seville.
💬 Join us at the State of Tax Justice conference! With @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and leading voices from civil society and academia, we’ll discuss progress on #taxjustice and challenges fighting #taxavoidance. 🗓 14 April, 14:00, Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam) 🔗 www.taxjustice.nl/14-april-con...
"We welcome measures the Chancellor has announced to tackle tax evasion. The Government must now go further to crack down on global tax abuse by supporting the UN Tax Convention." [2/2]
Perfect setting for a debate about the EU tax system - with mammoths and dinosaurs in the background #TaxMix2050 #EUTaxSymposium
Oh look, climate policy
Joseph Cotterill@jsphctrl.ft.com · last yr.“In the corporate jet business, some would-be US buyers are hitting the pause button... For example, if someone needed $500,000 in parts from [Bombardier] the Quebec-based planemaker, the new tariffs would add another $125,000.“ financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Very important points by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social Couldn't agree more - including on the role the US plays in international negotiations (the UN climate negotiations provide a painful example). With the US out, the road is clear - towards an fair, effective and ambitious #UNTaxConvention
ICRICT@icrict.bsky.social · last yr.‘Europe must engage meaningfully in the negotiations for a @un.org #TaxConvention’ @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at the Oxfam conference in Rome, also joined by @jayatighosh.bsky.social & @martinguzman.bsky.social. ‘It's probably a good thing that 🇺🇸 left the negotiating table,' he added. #TaxThePower
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social brought a powerful message to the #TaxJustice at @vaticancity.bsky.social: The world must not stop fighting for a #UNTaxConvention, despite the US stepping back from negotiations. #TaxThePower and keep the momentum alive! 🌐
While you wait, here's the opening edition of the handy FfD Chronicle (from the CSO Group on FfD via @toveryding.bsky.social ), including an article of why the UN Tax Convention should avoid the "Consensus deadlock", in English and Spanish csoforffd.org/resources/is...
Issue 31: A warm welcome back, now let's get to work!
Civil Society working together with one voice to transform our global economic system & advance the systemic changes we urgently need to see.
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1) "While the US called for other countries to leave the UN Tax Convention negotiations with them, nobody did & they had to walk out alone." @eurodadnews.bsky.social @toveryding.bsky.social's reaction to the US pulling out of the UN Tax Convention negotiations www.eurodad.org/us-walks-out...
United States walks out of UN Tax Convention process
European Network on Debt and Development
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Great talk by @toveryding.bsky.social about the history and presence of international tax coordination at #veroareena #taxconference @sorsafoundation.fi @laurifinest.bsky.social
