Endless corporate tax scandals?

Oxfam’s 5-point plan to build a fairer global tax system

Publication date: 28 July 2019
Author: Johan Langerock, Susana Ruiz Rodriguez

When multinational corporations and the super-rich use tax havens to avoid paying their fair share, it is ordinary people, and especially the poorest, who pay the price. The Mauritius Leaks show that tax havens continue not only to exist but to prosper, despite government promises to rein in tax dodging. This briefing lists five steps governments can take to tackle tax avoidance, and end the era of tax havens and the race to the bottom on corporate taxation.