OECD's second annual assessment of transparency and tax information exchange policies in more than 80 economies which highlights changes made over the last year in the domestic laws and regulations covered by the 2007 assessment.

OECD's fourth annual review of the legal and administrative frameworks for transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes in OECD and non-OECD Countries. This 2009 edition adds information for Estonia, India, Israel and Slovenia, bringing to 87 the number of countries covered.

The Global Forum' annual assessment of the legal and regulatory systems for the exchange of information in tax matters. This year’s update now covers more than 90 jurisdictions, including all OECD and G20 countries as well as all of the world's major financial centres.

In Tax, Inequality, and Human Rights, experts in human rights law and in tax law debate the linkages between the two fields and highlight how each can help to tackle rapidly growing inequality in the economic, social, and political realms. Against a backdrop of systemic corporate tax avoidance, widespread use of tax havens, persistent pressures to embrace austerity policies, and growing gaps between the rich and poor, this book encourages readers to understand fiscal policy as human rights policy, and thus as having profound consequences for the well-being of citizens around the world. Prominent scholars and practitioners examine how the foundational principles of tax law and human rights law intersect and diverge; discuss the cross-border nature and human rights impacts of abusive practices like tax avoidance and evasion; question the reluctance of states to bring transparency and accountability to tax policies and practices; highlight the responsibility of private sector actors for shaping and misshaping tax laws; and critically evaluate domestic tax rules through the lens of equality and nondiscrimination. The contributing authors also explore how international human rights obligations should influence the framework for both domestic and international tax reforms. They address what human rights law requires of state tax policies and how tax laws and loopholes affect the enjoyment of human rights by people outside a state's borders. Because tax and human rights both turn on the relationship between the individual and the state, neo-liberalism's erosion of the social contract threatens to undermine them both.

This annual assessment of transparency and tax information exchange policies covering 82 economies highlights changes made over the last year in the domestic laws and regulations of the 82 economies.

This Report describes the key principles for transparency and information exchange with regards to taxation and provides information on the current status of the legal and administrative frameworks in over 80 economies.

This analysis of how multi-level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. It covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and a myriad of other bodies, and introduces the reader to key regulatory arenas: corporate governance, competition policy, investment protection, anti-corruption rules, corporate codes and corporate liability, international taxation, avoidance and evasion and the campaign to combat them, the offshore finance system, international financial regulation and its contribution to the financial crisis, trade rules and their interaction with standards especially for food safety and environmental protection, the regulation of key services (telecommunications and finance), intellectual property and the tensions between exclusive private rights and emergent forms of common and collective property in knowledge.