Liz Nelson

It's impossible to earn a billion, but there are more billionaires every year. How?

We talk w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social about "collected wealth" vs "earned wealth", how we tax them unequally & why #WealthTax protects our earner way of life #TaxTheSuperRich youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...

Why Climate Justice Needs Tax Sovereignty - Tax Justice Network Tax sovereignty is the missing link for climate justice — reclaiming wealth, repairing harms, and funding just transitions.

🌎 Next month at @UNICAMP, Brazil, we’ll co-host #ClimateforChange2025 ahead of #COP30.

Why must #TaxSovereignty & #ClimateJustice go hand in hand for #JustTransitions? Find out in our latest blog 🔗 bit.ly/3KgiImR

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2025 This edition spotlights the latest evidence on gender equality. In just over a decade, the Sustainable Development Goals have generated significant changes for women and girls. They have spurred new l...

Snapshot on #gender equality - tell me I am wrong. Please! The collaborative report between UN Women and UN DESA
seems to miss out acceleration of international cooperation on tax reforms. Sustainably financing gender equality and #SDGs... shorturl.at/wR0Ga

Like pushing at an open door for for US multinationals trying to reverse Australian financial transparency measures...see also @taxjustice.net taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...

Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters

My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

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Why are we gathering in Brazil to talk climate? Why now? - Tax Justice Network This October, climate and tax justice movements will gather in Brazil for A Climate for Change: Towards Just Taxation for Climate Finance. The two-day conference at UNICAMP (13–14 October 2025) comes at a pivotal moment: just weeks before COP30 in Belém and in the first year of negotiations towards a UN tax convention. It is […]

💡The money for climate action exists. The challenge is reclaiming it.

Join us this October in Brazil, as #ClimateJustice & #TaxJustice movements unite to show why bridging the two is essential for a just transition ahead of #COP30.

👉 bit.ly/3VsRGLi

#ClimateForChange2025

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 crisis that disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, it is urgent to rethink public financing through fair and progressive tax systems. Reports from the Intergovernmental Panel […]

🌎El dinero para la acción climática existe. El desafío es reclamarlo. #ClimateForChange2025 Súmate a nosotros este octubre en Brasil en esta convergencia necesaria entre #JusticiaClimática #JusticiaFiscal & financiar una transición justa en camino a la #COP30 bit.ly/4jbO2zp

🌎À medida que as desigualdades e o colapso climático avançam, precisamos de soluções reais, não promessas vazias. Participe da #UmClimaParaAMudança2025, unindo #JustiçaFiscal & #JustiçaClimática por uma transição justa. 🔗 bit.ly/4jbO2zp #COP30 #ClimateForChange2025

Progress on the Road to a UN Tax Treaty Over the past two weeks, United Nations member countries started substantive negotiations for the first-ever UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation; a historic process that reflects ...

"In a world of extreme inequality, mounting economic pressures on governments, and a fractured multilateral system, the negotiations for a UN tax treaty offer a ray of hope" (@hrw.org) for #taxjustice. Negotiations cont. Nov 2025, Nairobi (financing.desa.un.org/unfcitc) www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

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

🔗 ‪‪@climatechangenews.com‬‬ bit.ly/44sk8kJ
🔗 @commondreams.org bit.ly/4esxKkq

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.
bit.ly/4njLG4o

@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...

taxjustice.net/press/g7-has...

The reports were true:

www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

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.

taxjustice.net/press/g7-has...

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:
financing.desa.un.org/post-news/fi...

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.
taxjustice.net/press/millio...

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

📢Join us this week!
@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.
taxjustice.net/jobs/researc...

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
👉 taxjustice.net/events/a-cli...
#ClimateForChangeBrazil

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The interview is available here (starts at 8:24): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...