This site may be the biggest single data resource published on secrecy jurisdictions. Yet many others have worked in this area. This page provides a collection of useful reports and links.
Websites
Financial Secrecy Index. A ranking of jurisdictions based on our secrecy scores, combined with a weighting according to scale. October 2011.
Tax Justice Network website. Contains large volumes of research and analysis, including dedicated sections on:
- Corporate Responsibility
- Country by Country reporting
- Democracy, tax and state-building
- Information Exchange
- Magnitudes: various estimates
- The Private Intermediaries
- Tax Competition
- Tax havens and corruption
- Tax havens and the financial crisis
- Tax treaties
- Transfer Pricing
- Briefing papers
- Quotations
Tax Justice Network Blog. Updated daily with news from around the world
Tax Research Blog. Analysis from Tax Justice Network (TJN) Senior Adviser Richard Murphy, with a strong but not exclusive UK focus.
Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development blog with regular news and updates.
Offshore Watch, regular updates from the offshore world
Global Witness. In-depth research reports and forensic analysis with a heavy focus on tax haven business.
End Tax Haven Secrecy, a multi-nation campaign to put pressure on world leaders to tackle financial secrecy, on behalf of the world’s poorest citizens.
Stop Paradis Fiscaux, a French-language group focused on tackling dirty money.
Christian Aid centrally involved in the construction of our Financial Secrecy Index, and a leading light in the tax justice movement.
Key Reports
Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries 2000-2009: Global Financial Integrity, January 2011. This report estimates that illicit financial outflows from developing countries hit US$1.26 trillion in 2008, and had been increasing at an average 18 percent per year since 2000.
Commission on Capital Flight from Developing Countries: Tax Havens and Development, Government of Norway, June 2009
ActionAid, Calling Time: why SAB Miller should stop dodging tax in Africa, November 2010
Tax Us If You Can, Tax Justice Network. An introduction to tax justice issues, September 2005, in several languages.
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World. Coming in multiple languages with 14 publishers around the world so far.
