Financial Justice Ireland

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Get down to the Central Bank to support the IPSC, if you can

🩸In Ethiopia menstrual products still carry 15% VAT while bn are lost each year to #IllicitFinancialFlows & corporate tax incentives. #PeriodPoverty affects girls’ education, health & dignity. Several African countries removed the tax—why not Ethiopia? bit.ly/47u5VWw #InternationalWomensDay

📸 thanks to ASTI & @comhlamh.bsky.social for the pics!

We were delighted to participate in the inaugural @astiunion.bsky.social Global Solidarity Seminar on Saturday!

It’s always great to connect with teachers and collaborate to connect the dots between solidarity, education, and economic justice.

We're backing our friends at @globaltaxjustice.org who've launched their Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women's Rights.

Click below to learn more about this campaign, its urgent demands and its compelling vision for justice:

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📢𝐖𝐄𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐑 | 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 3 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡

An event on feminist approaches to taxation & inequality from with case studies from Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, the Philippines, & Senegal.

📅Wednesday, March 4
⏰2–3:30 pm (CET)
🗣️English, Spanish & French
🔗Register: bit.ly/fftg3-launch

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic Director for this exciting, challenging, and multi-disciplinary role!

www.financialjustice.ie/news/financi...

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic Director for this exciting, challenging, and multi-disciplinary role!

www.financialjustice.ie/news/financi...

Call for grant applications - Connecting the dots: Linking economic, gender and climate justice to tackle global challenges | Financial Justice Ireland This call for grant applications is linked to the overall aim of promoting climate, gender and economic justice in an integrated manner. We are looking for groups that would help us achieve the &#8230...

Subgrants are now available through our partner organisation, @eurodadnews.bsky.social

Groups working to promote economic, gender and climate justice initiatives may be eligible for grants ranging from €5,000- €60,000.

Full details available below:

www.financialjustice.ie/news/call-fo...

US firms Apple, Microsoft and Eli Lilly paid almost 50% of State’s corporate tax in 2024 Report by Irish Fiscal Advisory Council highlights ‘exceptionally concentrated’ nature of Ireland’s corporate tax base

Utterly reckless for us to be so reliant on the tax receipts of 3 US firms.

We can't continue to depend on the profits of Microsoft, who is now waging high-stakes gambles on AI infrastructure.

There's an urgent need to place a wealth tax on domestic elites!

www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

We're proud to endorse this march and to continue to support @ipsc.bsky.social in all its tireless work in pursuit of justice for Palestine.

🔵Day 1 recap | #UNTaxConvention negotiations:

4th session of the negotiations in New York focused on two foundational commitments of the Convention: sustainable development (Article 4) & the fair allocation of taxing rights (Article 5).

👉 Full recap: bit.ly/49bYxRz

Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax

Making polluters pay is one of the key agenda items at the #UN this week as negotiations for the #UNTaxConvention restart.
Want to know more?
💡 Find a helpful overview on @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📖 Read our proposal for a polluters surtax www.eurodad.org/fossil_fuel_...

For 10+ years, rich countries have been rewriting the rules that oversee #aid, shifting resources away from communities in the #GlobalSouth towards their own interests.

Our new report traces how we got here ➡️www.eurodad.org/aid_off_cour...

So good to chat with teachers at the LCANA conference in Athlone. It always helps us learn how best to support the teaching of economic justice in classrooms.

As demand for LCA increases, we're fully committed to empowering its students by delivering high-quality resources!

11 people with more wealth than 4.5 million people. WTAF? We need a wealth tax immediately.

Oxfam says the world's billionaires now sit on $18.3 trillion of wealth. This growing inequality warps the global economy and also threatens democracy, says Oxfam executive director Amitabh Behar.

"These billionaires are now not happy being rich and richer. They really want now political power."

Oxfam Ireland’s landmark research shows billions could be raised from taxing the very rich in Ireland Oxfam Ireland today publishes a groundbreaking report on wealth inequality in Ireland, revealing stark disparities and proposing bold measures to tackle them.

5/ Oxfam Ireland's full report - well worth the read! - can be found here:

www.oxfamireland.org/press/oxfam-...

The "millionaire exodus" visualised - Tax Justice Network Did the "millionaire exodus" really happen? No. Not even close. But we've visualised the problem if that helps clarify things.

4/ Our friends at @taxjustice.net have previously published excellent work on the myths of the millionaire exodus:

taxjustice.net/2025/06/10/t...

How Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires Amid calls for Rachel Reeves to bring in a new levy for the super-rich, Madrid offers lessons for policymakers

3/ By way of quick example, this Guardian article from last year illustrates how Spain's wealth taxes haven't led to an exodus of the rich.

In a more divided world, elites now prefer the inconvenience of higher taxes to the hassle of migrating elsewhere

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Irish Times view on wealth inequality: the rich are getting a lot richer Oxfam’s analysis shows that the 12 richest people own more than the poorer half of the world’s population

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The Irish Times' editorialises in favour of a wealth tax, but suggests they're only effective when internationally coordinated.

This isn't accurate. Recent studies show single states can now operate highly effective wealth taxes, such as Spain and Norway

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Ireland’s 11 billionaires are collectively wealthier than 85% of adults in State, says Oxfam Inequality widening globally, says charity in report that coincides with start of Davos forum

Hugely important work from our friends at @oxfamireland.bsky.social mapping the extreme concentration of the planet's wealth in the hands of a few eccentrics.

#SpéirGorm

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Roots and Shoots: Gaisce Gold Residential – Weekend 1 at Ratra House, Phoenix Park - Gaisce President Catherine Connolly honours 50 Gaisce Gold Award recipients at a landmark ceremony marking 40 years of empowering young people across Ireland.

We were delighted to take part in Gaisce's Roots and Shoots course!

We worked with participants to explore activities focused on justice, solidarity, and critical reflection on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

www.gaisce.ie/gaisce-gold-...

Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines - Institute of Development Studies The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspectives...

What are you reading to start the new year?

Our team is delving into IDS Bulletin's special issue on the politics of a just transition, which covers realities of communities most affected.

We're curious to see what lessons can be applied to an Irish context!

www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

Corporate Lobbying and the US Attack on Venezuela Over the past year, corporate actors who stand to benefit from US-backed regime change in Venezuela spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the Trump administration, including over their econo...

This article suggests links between an Irish registered investment company and the attack on #Venezuela by way of lobbying linked to an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) claim: jacobin.com/2026/01/corp...

A Tale of Two Tax Events | Financial Justice Ireland Alex Cobham writes about his recent trip to Dublin In this first instalment of Financial Justice Ireland’s new guest blog series, we’re really pleased to introduce a short piece from Alex Cobham, &#82...

On his recent Dublin trip @alexcobham.bsky.social of @taxjustice.net wrote an insightful blog for us

He attended both our tax justice event and a contrasting one hosted by the Irish Tax Institute and Harvard Centre for International Development

#spéirgorm

www.financialjustice.ie/news/blog/a-...

Great to see this.

New Strategic Plan: 2025-2029 | Financial Justice Ireland We’re delighted to announce the launch of FJI’s new Strategic Plan 2025-29. We’re very grateful to our colleagues and stakeholders for taking part in the many consultations held over the last …

We're delighted to have completed our new Strategic Plan: 2025-2029!

www.financialjustice.ie/news/new-str...

The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025) Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on...

This sobering appraisal of COP30 in Belém is well worth reading, particularly for its analysis of the structural failures in climate financing.

thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

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