Why the Role of Business is So Crucial in the Fight for a Fairer Tax System
By Radhika Sarin, Policy Adviser, Private Sector Team, Oxfam Oxfam engages with a wide range of actors – citizens, journalists, political leaders, policymakers and allies within the private sector – to achieve the changes we need to build a fairer, more transparent tax system. Two weeks ago, Oxfam released The Heist That No One’s Talking […]
Why Business Needs to Step Up and Help Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance
Through Oxfam’s work fighting poverty around the world, we see the devastating impact that not having basic services like clean water and healthcare can have on the world’s poorest people. You might wonder what links poverty and corporate tax avoidance. For developing country governments, tax revenue from companies provides a significant share of the money […]
The Role of Business in Building a Human Economy
Eight billionaires own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who form the poorest half of the world’s population. An Economy for the 99 Percent, a new report by Oxfam, shows that the gap between rich and poor is far greater than had been feared. New and better data on the distribution of global […]
An Opportunity for Companies to Reverse Tax Trends
As the world’s top corporate leaders gather in Davos this week, the question I have on my mind is “Is business delivering for the greater good?” New analysis by Oxfam shows that the gap between the richest and the rest has widened dramatically. The wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population – that’s […]