COFFERS results were presented to a group of stakeholders from Austria and Germany in Vienna, at the University of Economics and Business Administration, 21.1.2020. The focus was on the relevance of the COFFERS results for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, which form the large majority of firms in Europe. A survey among Austrian tax offices […]

The EU-project, COFFERS, is about combating fiscal fraud and empowering regulators. That entails understanding the history of money laundering from from Al Capone to Al Qaeda. This animated short film with Brigitte Unger, our project leader, offers an introduction to the history on how the scope of money laundering expanded from drugs to terrorism and […]

Richard Murphy, Len Seabrooke, and Saila Stausholm will present their COFFERS research in the Research Seminars in Accounting & Financial Management series at King’s College London, Bush House, Room (SE)1.01 on November 20th 2019, 16.00-17.30. The presentation is based on COFFERS Working Paper 4.6. The details are below (and link to the working paper):   […]

Richard Murphy’s recently published work on tax gaps, tax spillovers and their implications for  modern monetary theory, to which we referred here when it was published in the Real World Economic Review in September 2019, has received a significant boost. Prof Randy Wray, one of of the founders of  modern monetary theory has said of […]

Two members of WP1, Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova and professor Ronen Palan, drew on their research on financial engineering as tax avoidance for the COFFERS project (formal deliverables D.1.6 and D.1.7) in their new book, entitled Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance. The two deliverables informed in particular chapters 11, ‘The Bad: Derivatives, Tax Avoidance and […]

A seminar on the use of tax spillover analyses created using the methodology described by Professor Andrew Baker and Professor Richard Murphy of City, University of London in a paper in Global Policy, published in March 2019, was discussed at a seminar at City, University of London on 5 September 2019. The seminar was attended […]

‘A major priority for the French government in hosting the 2019 G7 summit at Biarritz is to combat inequality, both within advanced economies and between countries. But if the G7 are serious about tackling inequality, there is a need to tackle the “race to the bottom” in taxation that affects governments around the world.’ Click here […]

Andrew Baker, professor of political economy, University of Sheffield, and Richard Murphy, professor of practice in international political economy, City University, London, call on the G7 to task agencies with carrying out fairer assessments of global tax systems using a new framework. Read more in this article.

In July 2019, following the launch of the Corporate Tax Haven Index in May 2019, the Tax Justice Network offered the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) two free, online webinars in English and Spanish. The webinars aim to train tax authorities to use the Corporate Tax Haven Index to evaluate and address their exposure to multinational corporate tax abuse. Over […]

COFFERS researcher Thomas Rixen recently gave input to a piece in SPIEGEL Online on latest developments in International tax policy. The German article can be viewed through the following link: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/warum-in-der-steuerpolitik-neue-allianzen-entstehen-a-1263386.html