Liz Nelson

There is no climate finance gap - only a tax sovereignty gap If governments reclaimed the power to tax extreme wealth, they could shift resources from billionaires and corporate giants to climate solutions If governments reclaimed the power to tax extreme wealt...

🌍💸Taxing extreme wealth could raise $2.6 trillion a year for climate finance. The real obstacle to climate finance isn’t missing money – it’s governments shielding the super-rich from tax. #ClimateJustice #WealthTax

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Financing a Public Future People Over Profit is a global online knowledge library and campaign builder — learn all you need to know about the privatization of public goods and how to stop it once and for all!

On UN #PublicServicesDay, we’re proud to support a collective call for bold reforms to finance quality public services for all.

Ahead of #FFD4, we urge governments to move beyond weak commitments & push for deep change in the global financial system.
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@sergiochaparro.bsky.social echos a repeated concern at #FFD4 Sevilla on the issue of climate & biodiversity action: "We are not facing a resource crisis but a crisis of political will".
Policy reforms must address tax, debt, austerity. #UNFCITC is key in protecting people & planet. @taxjustice.net

US: Budget Would Benefit Wealthiest at Expense of Rights The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the country’s wealthiest families while reducing spending on health and ot...

“It’s appalling that President Trump ran on a campaign to fix the economy but is delivering a budget that makes ordinary people pay with their health for tax breaks for millionaires” @mattcconnell.bsky.social @hrw.org on the catastrophe of a budget the senate just passed www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

G7 hasty cave in would finally pronounce global tax deal dead - Tax Justice Network It's looking like Trump might not be able to hold countries at economic gunpoint much longer.

In this new G7 #tax deal that claims a win for economic stability by appeasing the US administration, an important final chapter on the OECD's Pillar 2 minimum tax reforms may have been written...

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The reports were true:

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I'm wondering what all the business associations in Europe and elsewhere in the world will have to say about this...

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40 ehemalige Staatschefs fordern eine „neue Wirtschaftskoalition der Willigen“, um Ungleichheit, Armut & Umweltzerstörung zurückzudrängen.

Dafür schlagen sie unter anderem bessere internationale Zusammenarbeit im Steuerbereich bei den Vereinten Nationen vor.

Brief: clubmadrid.org/wp-content/u...

G7 hasty cave in would finally pronounce global tax deal dead - Tax Justice Network It's looking like Trump might not be able to hold countries at economic gunpoint much longer.

If today’s reports are true, G7 countries will be choosing tax subjugation under Trump over tax sovereignty at the UN. But it’s looking like Trump might not be able to hold countries at economic gunpoint much longer.

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The myth of millionaires leaving countries in significant numbers is in the news again this morning.

How many are leaving? Less than 1%.
#TaxtheSuperRich

And... boom. The US withdraws from the whole process, no one flinches, and the FfD4 outcome document, the Compromiso de Sevilla, is passed by unanimous consensus!

US ignored as Sevilla ‘financing for development’ outcome is adopted by consensus - Tax Justice Network The US gave up and withdrew from months-long negotiations, leaving the rest of the world to agree the text by absolute consensus.

Our response out now - as the G77 said, a modest step forward. Some real wins to build on, but some disappointment too, especially on debt where the EU has badly let itself down.

It is a significant shift for the entire world to move forward together, ditching the US taxjustice.net/press/us-ign...

The 'final draft' outcome document is here:
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Almost 100% of millionaires did not move to another country in 2024, but this was spun a full 180° into a "millionaire exodus" in news around the world. Our comms lead breaks downs the #BogusExodus.

Enough with the scare stories, it's time to #TaxTheSuperRich.
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HT to Bob Michel @taxjustice.net for highlighting this attack on global south countries' resilience. Remittance flows that have exceeded development aid and FDI, are now targeted for 3.5% tax by US.Govt...deepening already staggering levels of inequality @alliance_ed @cesr.bsky.social

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@liznelson13.bsky.social joins this powerful panel on: Tax Systems & Policy: Key to Better Health and Stronger Governance! #TaxJustice

[#Webinar] Tax Systems and Policy: Crucial for Good Health and Good Governance

📅 21 May 2025
🕚 11.00–12.00

Register www.unrisd.org/tax-systems-...

In collaboration with the International Institute for Global Health @ununiversity.bsky.social and @taxjustice.net

Financing for Development: Exploring how a human rights-based approach can reshape the FfD Agenda, proposing actionable strategies for equitable resource mobilization and allocation. For virtual participation register in this link: atlanticfellows.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Take a look at this Research Fellow opportunity @taxjustice.net
You'll generate and analyse data, including on our Indices, State of Tax Justice Report, as well as our work on the scale of tax injustice, human rights, climate justice and the race to the bottom.
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A climate for change: Towards just taxation for climate finance - Tax Justice Network English | Portuguese | Spanish The convergence of climate justice and tax reform is an ethical, political, and economic imperative. In a world marked by escalating inequality and an environmental cris...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! A Climate for Change 🌍
Join us in harnessing progressive taxation to fund climate action and advance #ClimateJustice.
📝 Submit by 4 May 2025 (EN/ES/PT)
🌱 Topics: tax & emissions, CBDR, reforms, justice and many others
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The interview is available here (starts at 8:24): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🧠Does #WealthTax work?

🎙️BBC's #GoodMorningScotland 🌞put that question to our CEO @alexcobham.bsky.social today and to the Tax Foundation Europe.

Here's what they had to say ⬇️
#TaxTheSuperRich

UK government must make progress on international tax rules Leading non profit organisations from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe have delivered a letter to Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and David Lammy urging the UK government to make progress on interna...

UK & global orgs are calling on the UK to step up efforts on international tax cooperation by:

🔍 Ensuring transparency registers in the Overseas Territories to tackle tax abuse

🇺🇳 Supporting the UN Tax Convention

💸 To raise billions in revenue

Full story: taxjustice.uk/blog/uk-gove...

Urgent call to action: UN Member States must step up with financial contributions to advance the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation - Tax Justice Network We are calling on UN Member States to make immediate financial contributions to support the preparations for the negotiations of the UN Framework Convention

🚨Urgent: The UN faces a liquidity crisis, threatening a fair global tax system! UN member states must act NOW by providing immediate, extrabudgetary funding to keep the #UNTaxConvention on track. The world is watching - let’s build a tax system that works for everyone! taxjustice.net/2025/03/12/u...

Incorporate Gender-Transformative Provisions into the UN Tax Convention - Global Tax Justice Without clear and targeted gender-responsive considerations, though, gender blind tax policies will fail to address structural inequalities in the organisation of care work and undermine progress towa...

Our work has only just begun to ensure that the UN tax negotiations result in a better tax policy that aligns with UN human rights conventions and previous human rights commitments that States have made, including commitments to furthering women’s rights.
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The Guardian view on a tax war: the world must unite against American obstruction | Editorial Editorial: Donald Trump’s threats to global tax reform have backfired, leaving the US isolated as nations push ahead with a new UN tax convention

"A united front at the UN is needed to forge a global tax system not dictated by Washington’s whims". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The transnational legal ordering of beneficial ownership registration The lack of transparency over who owns or controls legal vehicles is a global concern. The ordering of responses to this global issue has matured over more than two decades and has reached beyond d...

🚨 New research alert!
"The Transnational Legal Ordering of Beneficial Ownership Registration" has now been published in Transnational Legal Theory.

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New report from @TaxJusticeNet Pivotal choices now face European Union and UK policymakers, along with those of South Korea, Japan and the CANZ group. They can act in fear, seeking to appease the US....or they can...
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The Tax Justice Network is seeking a producer to establish a new monthly podcast programme for audiences in India and Pakistan. We hope to appeal to a wide listenership to support an empowered, informed citizenry with take-up by radio stations in India and Pakistan.
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Help us empower citizens to engage in and influence debates...provide the solutions needed to support change & hold governments to account. @taxustice.net needs a consultant producer to establish a new monthly podcast/radio programme for audiences in India & Pakistan.
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(7th meeting) Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation will hold their organizational meeting from 3-6 February 2025.

Final segment of the organisational session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation is about to begin - after 'informal informals', we now await agreement on key question of decision-making rules webtv.un.org/en/asset/k12...