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Amazing. Vive la France!! Parliamentarians have voted for a 2% wealth tax on the assets of the richest 0.01% of France’s citizens. It'd apply to around 4,000 people in France with assets of more than €100 million & could bring in between €15 and €25 billion per year www.euronews.com/business/202...

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Consequences of abandoning the fight vs corruption are huge. Yes, catastrophic foreign policy but US was central 'to global efforts to tackle corruption, financial crime & kleptocracy,' it put more $ into enforcement than anyone else www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ~ @oliverbullough.bsky.social

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Thought provoking from Nick Shaxson: "I think that most of the opponents of the far right are missing the biggest trick: to shift attention towards the economic domain, and particularly towards corporate power." www.linkedin.com/pulse/killer...

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"Regulations, though endlessly maligned by corporate and oligarchic propaganda, are all that protect us from multiple disasters...Because there is little public understanding of how complex systems operate, collapse tends to take almost everyone by surprise."

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Scotland customers pay on average £113 less for water than England. Public Ownership of water is normal in 90% of the world. 82% of us want to see water nationalised (YouGov July 24). Thames Water, a zombie company, just took on £3bn extra debt. So yes we DO want water nationalised as a whole!

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Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

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"Regulations, though endlessly maligned by corporate and oligarchic propaganda, are all that protect us from multiple disasters...Because there is little public understanding of how complex systems operate, collapse tends to take almost everyone by surprise."

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In our latest #TaxJusticeMinute, @aoc.bsky.social speaks live from the Vatican at the @icrict.bsky.social event on global tax justice. #TaxTheSuperRich #TaxThePower youtu.be/6x7KCzxbXmk?...

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"The UK is particularly unequal, with billionaire wealth growing by over 1000% since 1990 while foodbank use has skyrocketed and distrust of politics has grown." It doesn't have to be this way. Send your MP an equality valentine actionnetwork.org/letters/send... via @equalitytrust.bsky.social

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Seeking a podcaster for a tax justice podcast for audiences in India and Pakistan!!! We're adding to our fantastic family of regional @taxjusticenet.bsky.social podcasts taxjustice.net/jobs/india-a... We're open to your ideas, we felt a podcast for listeners in India AND Pakistan would be powerful

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An incredibly important speech from @patrioticmillionaires.org member @abigaildisney.bsky.social during the @icrict.bsky.social #TaxJustice workshop at The Vatican, attended by global leaders and economists. Watch live and replay Abigail’s compelling speech here: www.youtube.com/live/qvkR9RJ...

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"We must not forget the lasting damage done by the global financial crisis." There is no growth in an economy so poorly regulated that it crashes. It's reassuring to see the Bank of England governor knows this. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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AI technology benefits from decades of public investment. The challenge isn’t about regulation - we must ensure AI serves public purpose rather than becoming another machine of rent extraction for ‘big tech’. My latest for Project Syndicate with @tomvalletti.bsky.social ➡️ https://buff.ly/3QfRjBh

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Seeking a podcaster for a tax justice podcast for audiences in India and Pakistan!!! We're adding to our fantastic family of regional @taxjusticenet.bsky.social podcasts taxjustice.net/jobs/india-a... We're open to your ideas, we felt a podcast for listeners in India AND Pakistan would be powerful

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Wow. The US undermines the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (ends the pretence that they don't want companies to pay bribes) "US companies are harmed by FCPA overenforcement because they are prohibited from engaging in practices common among international competitors" www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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Starmer’s govt has voted to block UN push to reform global tax rules, as @bylinetimes.bsky.social reports: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/k... Watch this from our sister org @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social The #UNTaxConvention: Ending UK Opposition to a Fairer Global Tax System www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxQ...

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Since 1166 Birmingham's market is still going. Virtually the only space left not dedicated to multinational chains, for small businesses, affordable fruit, veg, meat & fish. Developers have chipped away at this for as long as I can remember. This could be the end www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/a-fa...

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"EU vs US or People vs Billionaires? Trump’s latest geopolitical moves are scary. But Americans & Europeans share a common foe." This "is a global conflict between ordinary people everywhere, standing shoulder to shoulder vs the globalized billionaires & oligarchs." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Dear followers, please see my bad-case scenario for where the US economy may be heading in the Financial Times The real threat to American prosperity via @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4e3f...

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Our sister organisation @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social is seeking a permanent Executive Director (deadline 19 March) and an Interim Executive Director (deadline 14 Feb) to cover the role until the permanent Director is in post oxfordhr.com/jobs/executi... taxjustice.uk/interim-exec...

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Just spotted that the Musk White House has disbanded the legal effort to go after kleptocrats. It's beginning to feel a lot like the United States has just changed sides. www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

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Coming soon: the Only in Birmingham podcast.

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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...

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Happening Now: DOJ files for a stay in Smith v. Treasury, the last remaining case keeping Treasury from enforcing the landmark #CorporateTransparencyAct. Last month, the Supreme Court threw out a nationwide injunction in another CTA case. Per DOJ: "The same result is warranted here."

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The Danish Parliament now follows suit: a broad coalition has agreed to seek a ban on foreign contributions to all political parties and candidates, citing international upheavals. nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2025...

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"Why can’t there be education for every child? Why can’t there be healthcare for everyone who needs it? Why can’t everyone be freed from hunger & deprivation? ...people are repeatedly told that there is no money. The wonderful news is that this is false" www.ipsnews.net/2025/02/tax-...

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This video is just epic. The beauty of the human spirit’s ability to overcome & thrive. 🇵🇸 ❤️

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Funding politics via donations from private individuals is undemocratic but IF we must I'd support a low cap, but I prefer a public financing system. And no company should be able to donate to political parties, ever. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/trump-show... from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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Everything you need to know about the #UNtaxConvention negotiations that kicked off this week, the US's walkout fumble and why countries now have a golden opportunity to end rampant global tax abuse, in this new guide by our @sergiochaparro.bsky.social. taxjustice.net/2025/02/05/t...

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1/ I don’t want 1970s style top-down, centralised nationalisation of our water. I want public ownership. There are so many ways to do public ownership—and my Water Bill wants to consider all of them.

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It should not be the job of a regulator to "support growth" but even if that was reasonable, protecting citizens, consumers and our economy against the growth of monopolies means fairer competition but I don't think that's what the uk chancellor has in mind www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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England water industry corruption: March 2023: Ofwat said it will "stop the payment of dividends if they would risk the company’s financial resilience". Debt-laden Thames Water still paid £196m. Dec 2024: Thames fined £18m. ZERO PAID. Thames allowed to choose what and when it will pay.

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I missed this positive step at the end of 2024: "the Climate Change Superfund Act has been signed into law, making New York the 2nd state [in the US] to require fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damages [raising] $75bn over 25 yrs from oil & gas companies" makepolluterspay.net/new-york-pas...

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The Trump administration just scored a spectacular own goal on day one of the negotiations, giving the rest of the world an even greater chance of ending global tax abuse. #UNtaxConvention

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Starting a new thread on the discussion this morning - which is focused on the decision-making rules that will be adopted for the negotiations of the UN tax convention, over the next three years

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NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He does not, our sources say, have "read only" access, but high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code.

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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...

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🚨 U.S. leaves the UN Tax Treaty negotiations, but the process continues Yesterday, after a morning of countries committing to international tax cooperation, the U.S. walked out of the #UNTaxConvention negotiations. 📰 Read GATJ's reaction here: bit.ly/4hKLJCr

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The US has pulled out of the UN Tax Convention negotiations. They would have obstructed all the way anyway. "With or without the participation of the US, the historic negotiations to fix the broken global tax rules will move forward," says @gatj.bsky.social globaltaxjustice.org/news/as-u-s-...

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Republicans' latest budget plan would cut $200 BILLION in healthcare and $50 BILLION in groceries for families. That $250 billion is set to go straight to billionaires and corporations in their Trump tax scam bill. They are taking from you to give to those at the top.

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Dr Ramy Mohamed Yousef, Egypt's deputy finance minister, is elected chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, at the opening negotiations of a UN Framework Convention for International Tax Cooperation - says it must provide a framework "for people and planet, not privilege and profit"

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Further to our assertion that the true purpose of Power is to accumulate and protect private wealth by any means necessary and that there is apparently no act so depraved that it can’t be rationalised, ignored or pardoned as long as it serves Power’s true purpose…

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Uninsurable. annpettifor.substack.com/p/our-uninsu... Another must read from @annpettifor.bsky.social

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On the #Taxcast the @taxjusticenet.bsky.social podcast: al-Assad & the British Crown Dependency of Guernsey, a @tbij.bsky.social story. Plus Trump's move on day 1 of his presidency to pull the US out of the OECD's global minimum corporate tax deal. What now? podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/150-...

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My piece for @petergeoghegan.bsky.social’s Democracy Sale on why Labour’s drive to slash regulation is a dangerous assault on the independence of regulators and will lead to more dirty money and corporate scandals democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-de...

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Our latest podcast, the #Taxcast: al-Assad and Guernsey @naomifowler.bsky.social speaks to @edsiddons.bsky.social @tbij.bsky.social Plus: Trump pulls the US out of the OECD’s global minimum tax deal. @alexcobham.bsky.social looks at what nations can do now podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/150-...

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