Illicit Finance

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How Much Do We Really Know about Multinational Tax Avoidance and How Much Is it Really Worth? Comments Welcome!
Maya Forstater
and
Vijaya Ramachandran
July 12, 2015
Blog Post

Talking about Tax Is Taxing: Pretending It Is Simple Will Hurt the Poor
Matt Juden et al.
June 08, 2015
Blog Post

Extending the UK Charity Commission’s Anti-Terror Powers Could Backfire
Vijaya Ramachandran
and
Matt Juden
May 27, 2015
During the Queen’s Speech, newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed an extended counter-extremism bill in order to confront “head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology.” A press release from the Prime Minister’s office said that the...
WORKING PAPER

The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy - Working Paper 404
Alex Cobham et al.
May 19, 2015
Both academic research and public policy debate around tax havens and offshore finance typically suffer from a lack of definitional consistency. Unsurprisingly then, there is little agreement about which jurisdictions ought to be considered as tax havens—or which policy measures would result i...