The World Bank and IMF are intensifying their work on tax under the Platform for Collaboration on Tax, yet civil society is cautious about embracing tax policy advice coming from the Bretton Woods Institutions.
Tax
Finance
News
IEG report finds Bank’s tax work lacks equity focus
IEG report on the World Bank’s domestic resource mobilisation work finds ad hoc approach focused on creating an enabling business environment while doing little to address equity issues.
Finance
Background
Making Tax Work for Women's Rights
Notes from a 2017 Spring Meetings event of BWP on Making Tax Work for Women's Rights, 19 April
Finance
Analysis
IFC investment in Stora Enso: the need for a responsible IFC tax policy
The International Finance Corporation praises the pulp and paper company Stora Enso as an industry leader in environmental and social standards, but questions about Stora Enso’s Dutch tax arrangement remain unresolved.
Finance
Background
The role of the IMF in domestic and international taxation
Notes from the 2017 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings session on Domestic and International Taxation, 19 April.
IFI governance
Background
The role of IFIs in assessing the impact of tax incentives and tax competition on inequality
Notes from a side event at the IMF/World Bank 2016 annual meetings exploring the link between tax incentives, reduced revenue mobilization and inequality, as well as addressing tax capacity building efforts.
Finance
Analysis
Development finance institutions and responsible corporate tax behaviour
Report finds Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are not doing enough to eliminate the risk of public money being complicit in tax avoidance schemes.
Finance
News
IFC's (ir-)responsible tax investment policy
Civil society organisations have demanded that the IFC develop a responsible tax policy that ensures that IFC investments are consistent with its development mandate and do not support companies utilising aggressive or abusive tax practices.
Finance
Analysis
World Bank and IMF: Where do they stand on progressive and responsible taxation?
The IMF and the World Bank are increasingly engaged with the challenge of addressing how tax avoidance and evasion affect developing countries, but need to address the role played by multinational enterprises and tax havens in exacerbating inequality and undermining countries’ domestic revenues.
IFI governance
Background
IMF Fiscal Forum - International Taxation: Opportunities & Risks
International Taxation: Opportunities & Risks Moderator Marin Verhoeven, World Bank Group Presenter: Vicky Perry,…
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Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.