Network tax justice

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Legal form: Network of non-governmental organizations and supporters
Purpose: Establishing tax fairness and tax transparency
Chair: Coordination group
Managing directors: Margaretha Eich
Consist:
Seat: Berlin
Website: www.netzwerk-steuerrechte.de

no founder specified

The Network Tax Justice Germany (NWSG) is a network of non-governmental organizations which, according to their own statements, is committed to strengthening public finances in the north and south, from the municipal to the global level, through fair, solidarity and ecologically beneficial tax and financial systems.

The NWSG is regularly quoted by numerous media such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Spiegel and Handelsblatt . NWSG experts appear at public hearings of the Finance Committee and specialist discussions of the German Bundestag .

Organization, members and working method

In the NWSG, trade unions , church and development organizations, social movements, environmental and human rights associations , scientific institutions and other civil society organizations as well as active individuals work together. The tax justice network includes (as of September 2018):

The NWSG is also supported by the Tax Justice Network (TJN) and Bread for the World and cooperates with the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB).

The NWSG is part of a worldwide movement that works together under the umbrella of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and, in Europe, Tax Justice Europe . The highest decision-making body is the general assembly. It elects a coordination group that controls the operational work.

The NWSG uses a variety of instruments to achieve its goals. These include: education and information work, research and analysis, international information exchange, public relations work, political mobilization and lobbying as well as coordination and networking of its members. The NWSG runs the Tax Justice Blog together with MISEREOR, the Tax Justice Network, WEED and the Global Policy Forum Europe .

Goal setting

The basis of the work is the charter of the NWSG in which it says: “It is neither morally nor politically acceptable that some companies and wealthy individuals benefit from the fruits of taxation on the one hand (such as good infrastructure, education and the rule of law), and on the other Withdraw responsibility to contribute to their financing. "

Therefore, the following topics are at the center of the work:

  1. The creation of a solidarity, fair and ecologically beneficial tax system in Germany , in particular through the uniform progressive taxation of all types of income and high wealth ;
  2. The reduction of environmentally harmful subsidies and taxes and the implementation of socially just ecological financial reforms that contribute to climate protection and the reduction of the overexploitation of nature ;
  3. The effective fight against tax evasion and tax evasion at national and international level, including the necessary strengthening of the tax authorities ;
  4. The effective regulation and thus the de facto elimination of tax havens and shadow financial centers ;
  5. The fight against corruption , money laundering and tax evasion through increased transparency requirements and disclosure requirements;
  6. Supporting the countries of the global south in combating tax evasion, not least through the establishment of efficient and fair tax systems;
  7. The introduction of regulations for the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities in different countries and territories, including information about the beneficial owners of capital investments (beneficial ownership disclosure);
  8. Increasing transparency in the international financial system through country -by-country reporting (CbCR) for companies.
  9. Overcoming the downward tax race in corporate taxation , eliminating harmful tax breaks and exemptions (tax holidays) for foreign investors, and preventing profits from being shifted abroad .
  10. Increased international tax cooperation both in the EU and in an open and democratic body under the umbrella of the United Nations .

Publications

  • Periodicals:
    • In Germany, the NWSG and the Tax Justice Network present the shadow finance index ;
    • The NWSG publishes the information on tax justice several times a year ; by working through and explaining different areas of the tax policy debate in a generally understandable manner. The last issue is, for example, a reappraisal of the Cum-Ex scandal.
  • Books:
    • Markus Meinzer: Tax haven Germany , 2015
    • Bastian Brinkmann: The Cheated Society - Why we cannot accept tax evasion by the rich and corporations , 2014
    • Nicholas Shaxson: Treasure Islands: How Tax Havens Undermine Democracy , 2012
    • Jarass, Obermair: Tax Measures for Sustainable Public Financing , 2012 * Publications on the web:
    • Nicola Liebert: Tax Justice in Globalization , 2011
    • Silke Ötsch and Celia Di Pauli (eds.), Rooms of the Offshore World - Tax Havens and Offshore Centers in Europe 2009
  • Publications on the web:
    • GATJ, Oxfam, TJN: Still Broken , Report on the Gigantic Extent of Tax Avoidance , 2015
    • Karl-Martin Hentschel: A Jungle Called IKEA , 2013
    • James S. Henry: New Findings on the Price of the Offshore System , German translation July 2012 (PDF; 587 kB)
    • Sol Picciotto, Towards Unitary Taxation of Transnational Corporations , December 9, 2012
    • Richard Murphy, John Christensen: Tax us if you can - 2nd Edition, 2012 (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Willmroth: Seem poorer - but get richer. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 21, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ David Böcking: Shadow financial index vanishing point USA. In: https://www.spiegel.de . Spiegel Wirtschaft, February 18, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Matthias Drost: Introduction of the "database land register" delayed by several years German land registers will only be centrally searchable in four years' time. That would be important in the real estate sector for the fight against money laundering. In: Handelsblatt. Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, February 5, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ http://steuererechtigkeit.blogspot.de/2015/11/illegale-staatliche-beihilfe-durch-tax.html
  5. ↑ Charter of the Tax Justice Network
  6. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-steuerrechte.de/schattenfinanzindex-2020/
  7. ↑ Info Tax Justice - Network Tax Justice. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-steuerrechte.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/c39cberarbeitete-cum-ex-broschc3bcre_04.12.pdf
  9. ↑ Still Broken. November 10, 2015, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  10. ↑ http://www.attac.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Kampagnen/konzernbestütung/Fotos/Recherche_IKEA.pdf
  11. ↑ http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Deutsch/TJN2012_KostenOffshoreSystem.pdf
  12. ↑ http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Towards_Unitary_Taxation_1-1.pdf
  13. ↑ http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/TUIYC_2012_FINAL.pdf