How could a global public database help to tackle corporate tax avoidance? - Tax Justice Network

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-19

Summary:

"A civil society database could play another important role: it could be a means to facilitate the assembly and coordination of different actors who share an interest in the economic activities of multinationals. It would thus be not only a source of information, but also a mechanism for organisation – allowing journalists, researchers, civil society organisations and others to collaborate around the collection, verification, analysis and interpretation of this data. In parallel to ongoing campaigns for public data, a civil society database could thus be viewed as a kind of democratic experiment opening up space for public engagement, deliberation and imagination around how the global economy is organised, and how it might be organised differently.

In the face of an onslaught of nationalist challenges to political and economic world-making projects of the previous century – not least through the 'neoliberal protectionism' of the Trump administration – supporting the development of transnational democratic publics with an interest in understanding and responding to some of the world’s biggest economic actors is surely an urgent task."

Link:

http://www.taxjustice.net/2017/02/17/global-public-database-help-tackle-corporate-tax-avoidance/

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Date tagged:

02/19/2017, 21:20

Date published:

02/19/2017, 16:20