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📢 Upcoming Global South-led #UNTaxConvention Webinar

🇺🇳The Start of the Negotiations for a UN Framework Convention on Tax: Maximising Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges

📅 Thursday, 24 July
🕥 2pm CEST
🗣️ English, Spanish, & French
📍 Register now: bit.ly/44IZhcM

Packing our bags, heading to Sevilla for the UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, where we expect a lot of EU ministers to give speeches about how we need to support "investors" to finance development. Those "investors" could start by paying tax #TaxJustice #UNTaxConvention

Thanks. One question @ec.europa.eu :

What is it I'm supposed to be doing at 15.00 entailing a briefcase with money and "tips from a Luxembourg firm"?

#TaxJustice #StopTaxHavens

@eurodadnews.bsky.social @minister-bz.bsky.social @minbz.bsky.social @ministerbho.bsky.social

Just so you know:

Tariff war = yet another burden on lower income countries struggling with a debt crisis

Pros of a UN Tax Convention, from @toveryding.bsky.social @eurodadnews.bsky.social:
✔️ Fairer, more inclusive space (OECD is ruled by wealthy countries).
✔️ While topics like climate and human rights are addressed at the UN, financing aspects are missing.
✔️ Strengthen accountability and transparency.

1/ Yesterday, @belgiummfa.bsky.social, @11.be & @cncd.be co-organised a roundtable in the lead-up to the Financing for Development Summit (FfD 4), happening end of June in 🇪🇸 Seville.

💬 Join us at the State of Tax Justice conference! With @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and leading voices from civil society and academia, we’ll discuss progress on #taxjustice and challenges fighting #taxavoidance.

🗓 14 April, 14:00, Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam)
🔗 www.taxjustice.nl/14-april-con...

"We welcome measures the Chancellor has announced to tackle tax evasion. The Government must now go further to crack down on global tax abuse by supporting the UN Tax Convention."

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Perfect setting for a debate about the EU tax system - with mammoths and dinosaurs in the background #TaxMix2050 #EUTaxSymposium

Oh look, climate policy

Very important points by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social Couldn't agree more - including on the role the US plays in international negotiations (the UN climate negotiations provide a painful example). With the US out, the road is clear - towards an fair, effective and ambitious #UNTaxConvention

@josephestiglitz.bsky.social brought a powerful message to the #TaxJustice at @vaticancity.bsky.social: The world must not stop fighting for a #UNTaxConvention, despite the US stepping back from negotiations. #TaxThePower and keep the momentum alive! 🌐

Issue 31: A warm welcome back, now let's get to work! Civil Society working together with one voice to transform our global economic system & advance the systemic changes we urgently need to see.

While you wait, here's the opening edition of the handy FfD Chronicle (from the CSO Group on FfD via @toveryding.bsky.social ), including an article of why the UN Tax Convention should avoid the "Consensus deadlock", in English and Spanish csoforffd.org/resources/is...

United States walks out of UN Tax Convention process European Network on Debt and Development

1) "While the US called for other countries to leave the UN Tax Convention negotiations with them, nobody did & they had to walk out alone." @eurodadnews.bsky.social @toveryding.bsky.social's reaction to the US pulling out of the UN Tax Convention negotiations www.eurodad.org/us-walks-out...

Great talk by @toveryding.bsky.social about the history and presence of international tax coordination at #veroareena #taxconference @sorsafoundation.fi @laurifinest.bsky.social