Tax Justice Network in the News

TJN press releases and short comment pieces are available from our media blog

The following articles are available with permission of the original authors.

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 en 08/04/2007 Financial Standard of Nigeria reports of the Tax  loses incurred by African Governments through default
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 en2/04/2007  Daily Nation reports of Threats by Flower companies to relocate to Ethiopia if the Naivasha County council goes ahead and raise taxes in order to raise money to rehabilitate the overstreached infrustructure in the town.
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 en 16/03/2007 Africa Confidential makes an analysis of the role of Tax Haven in facilitating corruption in Africa
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 en16/02/2007  Alternet lauds the launch of the Tax Justice Network for Africa as one of the important outcomes of the WSF2007
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en 15/01/2007 South Africa's Business Report looks at how the revenue service plans to tackle the use of complex tax structures by top-earners bilder/pdf.gif 
en 10/01/2007 In its editorial column The Nation explores How Africa is Bilked bilder/pdf.gif
en 23/09/2006 Kenya's Daily Nation asks whether the end is nigh for export processing zonesbilder/pdf.gif 
en 16/09/2006 The Guardian (London) - Comment - Taxes are a moral good, and avoiding your fair share is a moral disgrace, by Polly Toynbee bilder/pdf.gif 
en 18/09/2006 Public Agenda (Ghana) - UK, US & Co. are most corrupt . . not African nations . . says British economist bilder/pdf.gif 
en 11/09/2006 The Citizen (South Africa) - South African Revenue Service takes on the rich and corporates' offshore misdemeanours bilder/pdf.gif
en04/09/2006 London's Evening Standard Britain more corrupt than many African countries bilder/pdf.gif
en 01/09/06 Nigeria's BusinessDay reports that Institutions indulge in tax evasion despite the huge profits they make in Nigeria bilder/pdf.gif 
en 03/04/2006 Public Agenda (Ghana) - UK MP's criticise Britain's involvement in African corruption bilder/pdf.gif
en10/03/2006GhanaWeb - The Scam of Offshore Looting - $11.5 trillion siphoned offshorebilder/pdf.gif
fr 01/03/2006 Billets d'Afrique - La fuite des capitaux bilder/pdf.gif
en20/02/2006The Guardian: Comment - Tax evasion keeps the developing world poorbilder/pdf.gif 
en09/02/2006Pambazuka - Tax Justice for Africa: a new development strugglebilder/pdf.gif 
en 25/01/2006 Daily Graphic - Strong tax regime pushes development bilder/pdf.gif 
en05/11/2005 The Guardian - Where they hide their cashbilder/pdf.gif
en 22/06/2005 Daily Nation - UK government offers to trace money abroad bilder/pdf.gif 
en 06/06/2005 AllAfrica.com - Switzerland the most corrupt country in Europe bilder/pdf.gif