Alex Cobham
@alexcobham.bsky.social
Chief executive @TaxJusticeNet.bsky.social (he/him). New book: 'What do we know and what should we do about... Tax justice?' (SAGE Press): https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/what-do-we-know-and-what-should-we-do-about-tax-justice/book286416
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#COP30 is underway as countries debate how to fund real climate action. The question isn’t just what they commit to, but who pays. Meanwhile in Nairobi, talks on #UNTaxConvention may give nations the power to raise fair, reliable finance for #ClimateJustice & sustainable dev.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#COP30 is underway as countries debate how to fund real climate action. The question isn’t just what they commit to, but who pays. Meanwhile in Nairobi, talks on #UNTaxConvention may give nations the power to raise fair, reliable finance for #ClimateJustice & sustainable dev.
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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Next round of UN global tax negotiations are kicking off in Nairobi next Monday.
Useful primer here to get up to speed thanks to Tax Justice Network @alexcobham.bsky.social et al
taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
Useful primer here to get up to speed thanks to Tax Justice Network @alexcobham.bsky.social et al
taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
UN tax convention - Tax Justice Network
Everything you need to know about current negotiations on the biggest shakeup in history to global tax rules.
taxjustice.net
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Next round of UN global tax negotiations are kicking off in Nairobi next Monday.
Useful primer here to get up to speed thanks to Tax Justice Network @alexcobham.bsky.social et al
taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
Useful primer here to get up to speed thanks to Tax Justice Network @alexcobham.bsky.social et al
taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
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🗣️ Yesterday, MPs of all stripes spoke out against the ongoing financial secrecy in certain UK Overseas Territories. They called urgent attention to its devastating impacts on their constituents, and pushed the government to act.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🗣️ Yesterday, MPs of all stripes spoke out against the ongoing financial secrecy in certain UK Overseas Territories. They called urgent attention to its devastating impacts on their constituents, and pushed the government to act.
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The world is at a fork in the road. One path leads to tax subjugation under Trump & US multinationals, while the other leads to a collective defence of tax sovereignty at the UN that protects every country’s taxing rights. @alexcobham.bsky.social#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The world is at a fork in the road. One path leads to tax subjugation under Trump & US multinationals, while the other leads to a collective defence of tax sovereignty at the UN that protects every country’s taxing rights. @alexcobham.bsky.social#UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25
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It's terrible.
$475bn lost to US-backed global gag order shielding corporate tax cheaters - Tax Justice Network
A US-backed global gag order1 preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 bill...
taxjustice.net
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's terrible.
The State of Tax Justice 2025 is out today. Find out who has been keeping us in the dark about the scale of corporate tax abuse, and just how much it has cost us all
We have the right to know which multinational corporations cheated on over a trillion in tax. Our governments had the tax records but didn’t make them public. Doing so could’ve recover hundreds of billions in tax #NameTheTaxCheaters #TaxJustice2025
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The State of Tax Justice 2025 is out today. Find out who has been keeping us in the dark about the scale of corporate tax abuse, and just how much it has cost us all
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We have the right to know which multinational corporations cheated on over a trillion in tax. Our governments had the tax records but didn’t make them public. Doing so could’ve recover hundreds of billions in tax #NameTheTaxCheaters #TaxJustice2025
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We have the right to know which multinational corporations cheated on over a trillion in tax. Our governments had the tax records but didn’t make them public. Doing so could’ve recover hundreds of billions in tax #NameTheTaxCheaters #TaxJustice2025
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
Find out more: bit.ly/49wNnH0
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Tomorrow, we'll be publishing the 2025 edition of our State of Tax Justice report, revealing new findings on countries' tax losses to global tax abuse. Journalists interested in the report are welcome to contact us at media@taxjustice.net. #TaxJustice2025
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Tomorrow, we'll be publishing the 2025 edition of our State of Tax Justice report, revealing new findings on countries' tax losses to global tax abuse. Journalists interested in the report are welcome to contact us at media@taxjustice.net. #TaxJustice2025
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My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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The richest Americans control $46 trillion in wealth—but many pay little or no federal tax.
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The richest Americans control $46 trillion in wealth—but many pay little or no federal tax.
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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The secret tax lives of billionaires are worse than you think.
A fantastic and typically cinematic INET feature on Ray Madoff and THE SECOND ESTATE, publishing this week from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
A fantastic and typically cinematic INET feature on Ray Madoff and THE SECOND ESTATE, publishing this week from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
The richest Americans control $46 trillion in wealth—but many pay little or no federal tax.
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀
@bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The secret tax lives of billionaires are worse than you think.
A fantastic and typically cinematic INET feature on Ray Madoff and THE SECOND ESTATE, publishing this week from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
A fantastic and typically cinematic INET feature on Ray Madoff and THE SECOND ESTATE, publishing this week from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
Important piece from @icrict.bsky.social co-chairs @jayatighosh.bsky.social and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social on the need for countries to stand together in the UN tax convention, in the face of US aggression.
www.cnbcafrica.com/2025/the-us-...
www.cnbcafrica.com/2025/the-us-...
The Us Threat To Global Tax Reform: A Proposal For Protecting Multilateralism
The US Threat to Progress on Tax Multilateralism By the end of 2024, considerable progress had been made towards the construction of a comprehensive multilateral architecture for corporate taxation. ...
www.cnbcafrica.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Important piece from @icrict.bsky.social co-chairs @jayatighosh.bsky.social and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social on the need for countries to stand together in the UN tax convention, in the face of US aggression.
www.cnbcafrica.com/2025/the-us-...
www.cnbcafrica.com/2025/the-us-...
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A mammoth day for the Patriotic Millionaires yesterday!
1⃣ 20 of our members headed to Westminster to lobby their local MPs and share our Urgent Memo on fair taxation.
1⃣ 20 of our members headed to Westminster to lobby their local MPs and share our Urgent Memo on fair taxation.
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A mammoth day for the Patriotic Millionaires yesterday!
1⃣ 20 of our members headed to Westminster to lobby their local MPs and share our Urgent Memo on fair taxation.
1⃣ 20 of our members headed to Westminster to lobby their local MPs and share our Urgent Memo on fair taxation.
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"From Gaza to the Amazon, lives are treated as expendable in a system built on sacrifice. Not everything that’s green shines. False solutions sustain colonial power. We must mobilise political will and move resources through just taxation to fund survival, not destruction.”
Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action
taxjustice.net/press/global...
taxjustice.net/press/global...
Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action - Tax Justice Network
The conference called on governments to move beyond symbolic pledges and take bold fiscal action to reprogramme an economy that has pushed the planet to the brink of ecological collapse.
taxjustice.net
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"From Gaza to the Amazon, lives are treated as expendable in a system built on sacrifice. Not everything that’s green shines. False solutions sustain colonial power. We must mobilise political will and move resources through just taxation to fund survival, not destruction.”
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Tax the super-rich.
Rewrite the rules and unrig the system.
Raise billions for our communities, for healthcare and making people's lives better.
Here's ten policies the Chancellor adopt, to make the tax system work for everyone
taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...
Rewrite the rules and unrig the system.
Raise billions for our communities, for healthcare and making people's lives better.
Here's ten policies the Chancellor adopt, to make the tax system work for everyone
taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Tax the super-rich.
Rewrite the rules and unrig the system.
Raise billions for our communities, for healthcare and making people's lives better.
Here's ten policies the Chancellor adopt, to make the tax system work for everyone
taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...
Rewrite the rules and unrig the system.
Raise billions for our communities, for healthcare and making people's lives better.
Here's ten policies the Chancellor adopt, to make the tax system work for everyone
taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...
Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action
taxjustice.net/press/global...
taxjustice.net/press/global...
Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action - Tax Justice Network
The conference called on governments to move beyond symbolic pledges and take bold fiscal action to reprogramme an economy that has pushed the planet to the brink of ecological collapse.
taxjustice.net
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action
taxjustice.net/press/global...
taxjustice.net/press/global...
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ITUC denounces Trump’s intervention in #Argentina’s elections — backing a regime that cuts wages, attacks public services, and enables capital flight 💸
This isn’t a bailout. It’s a hedge fund exit plan.
✊🏽ITUC stands with Argentina’s workers. No more blackmail & foreign interference. #ForDemocracy
This isn’t a bailout. It’s a hedge fund exit plan.
✊🏽ITUC stands with Argentina’s workers. No more blackmail & foreign interference. #ForDemocracy
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
ITUC denounces Trump’s intervention in #Argentina’s elections — backing a regime that cuts wages, attacks public services, and enables capital flight 💸
This isn’t a bailout. It’s a hedge fund exit plan.
✊🏽ITUC stands with Argentina’s workers. No more blackmail & foreign interference. #ForDemocracy
This isn’t a bailout. It’s a hedge fund exit plan.
✊🏽ITUC stands with Argentina’s workers. No more blackmail & foreign interference. #ForDemocracy
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You thought PL clubs partnering with "opaque" (unlicensed, unregulated and illegal) Asian-facing sports betting operators would soon be a thing of the past? Think again.
The new, hidden gambling partnerships taking root around the Premier League.
By @philippeauclair.bsky.social
By @philippeauclair.bsky.social
Premier League clubs turn to hidden gambling partners to beat sponsorship ban
Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds and Nottingham Forest failed to respond to questions sent by the Guardian, while Sunderland refused to comment
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
You thought PL clubs partnering with "opaque" (unlicensed, unregulated and illegal) Asian-facing sports betting operators would soon be a thing of the past? Think again.
Changes afoot in UK. Mere weeks ago, the Prime Minister referred to the wealth tax campaign as selling 'snake oil'. But today, the Chancellor says taxes on wealthy will rise, echoing the campaign's debunking of the millionaire exodus myth (lobbyist "bleating"!)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves says higher taxes on wealthy ‘part of the story’ for November budget
Chancellor hints at rises and calls out past ‘scaremongering’ over VAT on private schools and changes to non-doms
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Changes afoot in UK. Mere weeks ago, the Prime Minister referred to the wealth tax campaign as selling 'snake oil'. But today, the Chancellor says taxes on wealthy will rise, echoing the campaign's debunking of the millionaire exodus myth (lobbyist "bleating"!)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Corruption doesn't respect borders — and neither should accountability.
Join ICIJ's Director Gerard Ryle and Ambassador Susan D. Page for "Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption" on Monday at @umfordschool.bsky.social.
Register:
Join ICIJ's Director Gerard Ryle and Ambassador Susan D. Page for "Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption" on Monday at @umfordschool.bsky.social.
Register:
Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption
Ford School professor of practice Ambassador Susan D.
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Corruption doesn't respect borders — and neither should accountability.
Join ICIJ's Director Gerard Ryle and Ambassador Susan D. Page for "Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption" on Monday at @umfordschool.bsky.social.
Register:
Join ICIJ's Director Gerard Ryle and Ambassador Susan D. Page for "Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption" on Monday at @umfordschool.bsky.social.
Register:
Will the US economy crash because of:
i. AI bubble
ii. Financial market malpractice/misregulation again
iii. Tariffs
iv. Authoritarian corruption
Select all that apply. For bonus points, indicate what share of the world economy will be affected, and how badly.
i. AI bubble
ii. Financial market malpractice/misregulation again
iii. Tariffs
iv. Authoritarian corruption
Select all that apply. For bonus points, indicate what share of the world economy will be affected, and how badly.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Will the US economy crash because of:
i. AI bubble
ii. Financial market malpractice/misregulation again
iii. Tariffs
iv. Authoritarian corruption
Select all that apply. For bonus points, indicate what share of the world economy will be affected, and how badly.
i. AI bubble
ii. Financial market malpractice/misregulation again
iii. Tariffs
iv. Authoritarian corruption
Select all that apply. For bonus points, indicate what share of the world economy will be affected, and how badly.
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Making beneficial ownership data public, making sure it is used and realising its value: what we can learn from the example of the UK which has made its beneficial ownership data publicly and openly available for nearly the last decade?
medium.com/@stephenabbo...
#beneficialownership #opendata
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#beneficialownership #opendata
Making beneficial ownership data public, making sure it is used and realising its value
Knowing who really owns or controls entities such as companies or trusts is a crucial part of anti-money laundering investigations…
medium.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Making beneficial ownership data public, making sure it is used and realising its value: what we can learn from the example of the UK which has made its beneficial ownership data publicly and openly available for nearly the last decade?
medium.com/@stephenabbo...
#beneficialownership #opendata
medium.com/@stephenabbo...
#beneficialownership #opendata
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Some 17 press freedom and journalists' organisations are calling on Malta to set up a national action plan on media freedom and journalist safety on the eye of the eighth anniversary of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia cpj.org/2025/10/call...
Call to action in memory of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia - Committee to Protect Journalists
On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, CPJ joins 17 press freedom and journalists’ organizations to call on Malta to set up a national…
cpj.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Some 17 press freedom and journalists' organisations are calling on Malta to set up a national action plan on media freedom and journalist safety on the eye of the eighth anniversary of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia cpj.org/2025/10/call...
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#Malta: In memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups call on authorities to adopt a National Action Plan on Media Freedom and Journalist Safety.
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Malta: In Memory of Daphne. Media reform public consultations must lead to National Action Plan — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
15 October 2025: On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups are calling on the national authorities...
www.pen-international.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#Malta: In memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups call on authorities to adopt a National Action Plan on Media Freedom and Journalist Safety.
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www.pen-international.org/news/malta-i...
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www.pen-international.org/news/malta-i...