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13 May 16
Yesterday’s Anti-Corruption Summit saw world leaders vow to double down on what UK prime minister David Cameron dubbed the “cancer” of corruption – however only a handful of countries announced firm...
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11 May 16
Panama has agreed to share its financial account information automatically in order to tackle tax evasion and avoidance.
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10 May 16
Greece has edged closer to unlocking the next tranche of much-needed bailout funds as eurozone finance ministers commit to look into how to ease the country’s debt burden.
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9 May 16
More than 300 leading economists have told world leaders that there is no economic justification for the existence of tax havens and urged them to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding them.
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9 May 16
Athens lawmakers have approved a host of controversial pension and tax reforms in a bid to unlock the next tranche of Greece’s bailout cash.
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6 May 16
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has signed this year’s controversial $30bn budget into law.
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6 May 16
The lingering impact of the Ebola epidemic and the commodity price slump are weighing heavily on the economies of Guinea and Liberia, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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6 May 16
The US government has announced a host of new measures to crack down on secretive companies after the Panama Papers unveiled the scale of tax evasion worldwide.
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3 May 16
Sri Lanka is set to benefit from $1.5bn from the International Monetary Fund to support the country’s economic reforms over the next three years.
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3 May 16
The International Monetary Fund has warned that economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will slow this year, and urged countries across the region to shore up their tax bases as revenues from exports...
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28 Apr 16
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has had his call for a snap European Union summit rejected as fears grow around a repeat of last summer’s crisis that almost saw Greece ejected from the eurozone.
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28 Apr 16
Nigeria has urged the World Bank to help ensure the swift repatriation of $320m in stolen Nigerian funds currently being held in Switzerland.
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26 Apr 16
Saudi Arabia has unveiled an ambitious plan to overhaul the country’s economy and end its “addiction to oil”.
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25 Apr 16
Over twenty more nations will share details on the true owners of secretive companies after joining up to the anti-tax evasion initiative headed by Europe’s five largest economies.
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22 Apr 16
A new local government institute is to help build the public financial management capacity of local authorities in Rwanda.
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21 Apr 16
Bermuda has become the latest nation to adopt the OECD’s tax transparency agreement, under which detailed reports on multinational companies’ operations are shared between tax administrations.
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21 Apr 16
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has announced one-off taxes, asset sales and potential new bond issuances to help pay for the recovery bill from last Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
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18 Apr 16
The Palestinian government is losing as much as $285m in revenues annually under arrangements whereby Israel collects VAT, import taxes and other revenues on its behalf.
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18 Apr 16
The South American nation of Suriname is set to receive a support package worth $478m from the International Monetary Fund intended to help its economy pull out of recession.
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15 Apr 16
Spain’s industry, energy and tourism minister resigned this morning after his alleged links to an offshore company were exposed in the Panama Papers.
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15 Apr 16
Tunisia has made further progress towards a $2.8bn support package from the International Monetary Fund, which now only needs approval from the fund’s executive board.
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15 Apr 16
The five largest European economies have agreed on new “hammer blow” measures to crackdown on tax evasion in response to the Panama Papers.
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14 Apr 16
Government deficits are now expected to climb above the levels observed at the beginning of the 2008-09 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned in its annual Fiscal Monitor.
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14 Apr 16
Developing countries could be missing out on substantial tax revenues as a result of ill-suited tax policies, research from the International Growth Centre based at the London School of Economics has...
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12 Apr 16
The European Commission today unveiled plans to force tax avoidance by large multinational corporations into the open, after toughening up its proposals in the wake of the Panama Papers.