APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
@appgonacrt.bsky.social
Building a fair and transparent tax system. Campaigning against corruption and dirty money. Working cross-party for real change.
Chaired by Phil Brickell MP
Chaired by Phil Brickell MP
🔎 Last week in Westminster Hall, MPs set out how financial secrecy in Britain’s Overseas Territories is something that hits communities hard across the UK. When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, it is working people here at home who pick up the bill 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🔎 Last week in Westminster Hall, MPs set out how financial secrecy in Britain’s Overseas Territories is something that hits communities hard across the UK. When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, it is working people here at home who pick up the bill 👇🧵
🚨 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is leading a debate today on how financial secrecy in Britain's Overseas Territories is harming communities throughout the UK.
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚨 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social is leading a debate today on how financial secrecy in Britain's Overseas Territories is harming communities throughout the UK.
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
When oligarchs, tax dodgers and organised criminals hide their money offshore, working people here at home pick up the bill 👇
💷 Economic crime costs us billions every year, from fraud to money laundering.
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
💷 Economic crime costs us billions every year, from fraud to money laundering.
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace.
Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇
🗣️ "We need open registers of beneficial ownership, transparency, and letting sunlight be the best disinfectant."
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🗣️ "We need open registers of beneficial ownership, transparency, and letting sunlight be the best disinfectant."
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.
❗High-street money laundering and tax abuse is damaging communities nationwide. After our APPG received a briefing from the NCA last week, APPG Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social asked the Home Office what they’re doing about it ⬇
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
❗High-street money laundering and tax abuse is damaging communities nationwide. After our APPG received a briefing from the NCA last week, APPG Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social asked the Home Office what they’re doing about it ⬇
New officers, new direction ⬆️
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New officers, new direction ⬆️
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Following its Annual General Meeting, MPs elected a fresh slate of officers to take the APPG forward in the year ahead.
@philbrickellmp.bsky.social was elected Chair of the Group. Phil brings to the role over a decade of senior experience tackling financial crime.
Why are our high streets littered with vape shops that always appear empty yet claim to take in tens of thousands each week? Why are they lined with multiple barbers that never seem to cut any hair? These are questions MPs are now demanding answers to.
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why are our high streets littered with vape shops that always appear empty yet claim to take in tens of thousands each week? Why are they lined with multiple barbers that never seem to cut any hair? These are questions MPs are now demanding answers to.
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
We welcome the Government's announcement today that it will set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission to help restore trust in politics.
Statement from our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social 👇
👏 3/4 Finally, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social welcomed the strategy.
❔ He asked several Qs, including on timelines and permissible donations.
👍 📝 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social said she would write to him about his questions, and would be working closely with the Electoral Commission.
❔ He asked several Qs, including on timelines and permissible donations.
👍 📝 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social said she would write to him about his questions, and would be working closely with the Electoral Commission.
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
👏 3/4 Finally, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social welcomed the strategy.
❔ He asked several Qs, including on timelines and permissible donations.
👍 📝 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social said she would write to him about his questions, and would be working closely with the Electoral Commission.
❔ He asked several Qs, including on timelines and permissible donations.
👍 📝 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social said she would write to him about his questions, and would be working closely with the Electoral Commission.
⚠️ 🪙 2/4 Next up was @liambyrnemp.bsky.social who cautioned that the measures outlined by Govt need to be strengthened by banning cryptocurrency from our politics.
📑 The Minister said existing rules will still need to be abided by, regardless of the type of donation.
📑 The Minister said existing rules will still need to be abided by, regardless of the type of donation.
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
⚠️ 🪙 2/4 Next up was @liambyrnemp.bsky.social who cautioned that the measures outlined by Govt need to be strengthened by banning cryptocurrency from our politics.
📑 The Minister said existing rules will still need to be abided by, regardless of the type of donation.
📑 The Minister said existing rules will still need to be abided by, regardless of the type of donation.
🚨 📽️ 🧵 1/4 New video thread!
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 📽️ 🧵 1/4 New video thread!
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
🗣️ Yesterday, when Govt launched its Elections Bill strategy, some of our members asked key questions.
🦹♂️ First up was @rachelblakemp.bsky.social who voiced her concerns about foreign influence.
📖 Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social agreed, citing the Russia Report.
💰 In short, Phil says, 'dirty money...corrodes the entire tax system.'
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July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
💰 In short, Phil says, 'dirty money...corrodes the entire tax system.'
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🏝️ As Phil says, corporate secrecy in territories like the BVI enables tax abuse on a huge scale.
🛥️ In Jan, @tbij.bsky.social reported on how UK tax havens allowed sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to allegedly dodge vast amounts of tax.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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🛥️ In Jan, @tbij.bsky.social reported on how UK tax havens allowed sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to allegedly dodge vast amounts of tax.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🏝️ As Phil says, corporate secrecy in territories like the BVI enables tax abuse on a huge scale.
🛥️ In Jan, @tbij.bsky.social reported on how UK tax havens allowed sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to allegedly dodge vast amounts of tax.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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🛥️ In Jan, @tbij.bsky.social reported on how UK tax havens allowed sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to allegedly dodge vast amounts of tax.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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📽️ 🧵 New video thread!
🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
📽️ 🧵 New video thread!
🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🗣️ The APPG's @philbrickellmp.bsky.social spoke about British Overseas Territories in this week's tax debate.
❌ The British Virgin Islands (BVI) recently missed a 3rd deadline for creating more transparent corporate registers.
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🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
July 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 STATEMENT 🚨
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇
2/ 👍 The Government's own Growth Duty guidance is clear:
📈 “Well designed, proportionate regulation” is essential to protecting consumers and promoting long-term, sustainable growth.
📈 “Well designed, proportionate regulation” is essential to protecting consumers and promoting long-term, sustainable growth.
July 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
2/ 👍 The Government's own Growth Duty guidance is clear:
📈 “Well designed, proportionate regulation” is essential to protecting consumers and promoting long-term, sustainable growth.
📈 “Well designed, proportionate regulation” is essential to protecting consumers and promoting long-term, sustainable growth.
2/ 💰 Economic crime isn’t "just" a financial problem. It directly fuels:
❌ people trafficking
❌ drug networks
❌ ransomware
❌ and espionage.
🚓 In 2024, the NCA dismantled a laundering network tied to Russian elites, ransomware gangs, and the Kinahan cartel. Read the story here ⬇️
❌ people trafficking
❌ drug networks
❌ ransomware
❌ and espionage.
🚓 In 2024, the NCA dismantled a laundering network tied to Russian elites, ransomware gangs, and the Kinahan cartel. Read the story here ⬇️
July 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
2/ 💰 Economic crime isn’t "just" a financial problem. It directly fuels:
❌ people trafficking
❌ drug networks
❌ ransomware
❌ and espionage.
🚓 In 2024, the NCA dismantled a laundering network tied to Russian elites, ransomware gangs, and the Kinahan cartel. Read the story here ⬇️
❌ people trafficking
❌ drug networks
❌ ransomware
❌ and espionage.
🚓 In 2024, the NCA dismantled a laundering network tied to Russian elites, ransomware gangs, and the Kinahan cartel. Read the story here ⬇️
2/ "Clean Foundations for Growth" outlines some of the costs of economic crime:
💸 Estimated £350bn cost to the economy every year
📉 Public trust undermined
🏘️ Housing & markets distorted
🔒 National security threatened
💸 Estimated £350bn cost to the economy every year
📉 Public trust undermined
🏘️ Housing & markets distorted
🔒 National security threatened
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
2/ "Clean Foundations for Growth" outlines some of the costs of economic crime:
💸 Estimated £350bn cost to the economy every year
📉 Public trust undermined
🏘️ Housing & markets distorted
🔒 National security threatened
💸 Estimated £350bn cost to the economy every year
📉 Public trust undermined
🏘️ Housing & markets distorted
🔒 National security threatened
1/🚨🧵 Out now! Our new report with the APPG on Fair Banking and @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org shows how tackling dirty money can create growth.
🗣️ The report launch featured speeches by @margarethodge.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, UK Finance's Aminah Samad, and @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social
🗣️ The report launch featured speeches by @margarethodge.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, UK Finance's Aminah Samad, and @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1/🚨🧵 Out now! Our new report with the APPG on Fair Banking and @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org shows how tackling dirty money can create growth.
🗣️ The report launch featured speeches by @margarethodge.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, UK Finance's Aminah Samad, and @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social
🗣️ The report launch featured speeches by @margarethodge.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, UK Finance's Aminah Samad, and @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social
📽️ NEW VIDEO 📽️
🚨 "Missing deadlines must have consequences." 🚨
🏛️ After some Overseas Territories missed their own deadline for opening up their corporate registers, our Chair, @joepowell.bsky.social calls for "urgent action" from UK Govt to help us clean up dirty money.
🚨 "Missing deadlines must have consequences." 🚨
🏛️ After some Overseas Territories missed their own deadline for opening up their corporate registers, our Chair, @joepowell.bsky.social calls for "urgent action" from UK Govt to help us clean up dirty money.
July 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📽️ NEW VIDEO 📽️
🚨 "Missing deadlines must have consequences." 🚨
🏛️ After some Overseas Territories missed their own deadline for opening up their corporate registers, our Chair, @joepowell.bsky.social calls for "urgent action" from UK Govt to help us clean up dirty money.
🚨 "Missing deadlines must have consequences." 🚨
🏛️ After some Overseas Territories missed their own deadline for opening up their corporate registers, our Chair, @joepowell.bsky.social calls for "urgent action" from UK Govt to help us clean up dirty money.
🚨 ⏰ ❌ Last night, the British Virgin Islands failed to meet its own deadline for opening up its corporate registers.
🖋️ ✉️ So our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social led a group of MPs in sending a letter to the BVI Premier this morning. This follows a letter we sent 5 months ago.
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🖋️ ✉️ So our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social led a group of MPs in sending a letter to the BVI Premier this morning. This follows a letter we sent 5 months ago.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🚨 ⏰ ❌ Last night, the British Virgin Islands failed to meet its own deadline for opening up its corporate registers.
🖋️ ✉️ So our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social led a group of MPs in sending a letter to the BVI Premier this morning. This follows a letter we sent 5 months ago.
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🖋️ ✉️ So our Chair @joepowell.bsky.social led a group of MPs in sending a letter to the BVI Premier this morning. This follows a letter we sent 5 months ago.
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🚨 📽️ 🗣️ Yesterday our chair @joepowell.bsky.social congratulated the Foreign Secretary on this week's post-Brexit deal with Gibraltar.
👍 The government of Gibraltar has created a beneficial ownership register - which boosts business confidence and "sends a message to other Overseas Territories".
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👍 The government of Gibraltar has created a beneficial ownership register - which boosts business confidence and "sends a message to other Overseas Territories".
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June 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨 📽️ 🗣️ Yesterday our chair @joepowell.bsky.social congratulated the Foreign Secretary on this week's post-Brexit deal with Gibraltar.
👍 The government of Gibraltar has created a beneficial ownership register - which boosts business confidence and "sends a message to other Overseas Territories".
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👍 The government of Gibraltar has created a beneficial ownership register - which boosts business confidence and "sends a message to other Overseas Territories".
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Brickell also called for a new Economic Crime Fighting Fund using reinvested fines and seized assets rather than increasing the tax burden.
Economic crime costs the UK £300bn each year, but comprises less than 1% of police resources. Enforcement funding does not match the scale of the issue.
Economic crime costs the UK £300bn each year, but comprises less than 1% of police resources. Enforcement funding does not match the scale of the issue.
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Brickell also called for a new Economic Crime Fighting Fund using reinvested fines and seized assets rather than increasing the tax burden.
Economic crime costs the UK £300bn each year, but comprises less than 1% of police resources. Enforcement funding does not match the scale of the issue.
Economic crime costs the UK £300bn each year, but comprises less than 1% of police resources. Enforcement funding does not match the scale of the issue.
In Monday's Crime and Policing Bill debate, APPG Member @philbrickellmp.bsky.social welcomed the introduction of court cost protections for law enforcement, which would level the playing field between agencies and wealthy crooks.
Read our Manifesto here 👇 www.economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
Read our Manifesto here 👇 www.economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In Monday's Crime and Policing Bill debate, APPG Member @philbrickellmp.bsky.social welcomed the introduction of court cost protections for law enforcement, which would level the playing field between agencies and wealthy crooks.
Read our Manifesto here 👇 www.economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
Read our Manifesto here 👇 www.economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
As reported by @byrobdavies.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com, APPG members have written to the British Virgin Islands Premier about the urgent need for public transparency registers to combat tax abuse and money laundering
Read article here👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Read letter here👇
Read article here👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Read letter here👇
February 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
As reported by @byrobdavies.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com, APPG members have written to the British Virgin Islands Premier about the urgent need for public transparency registers to combat tax abuse and money laundering
Read article here👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Read letter here👇
Read article here👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Read letter here👇