Ian Gary
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Ian Gary
@ianpgary.bsky.social
Executive Director of the FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social and Fund for Constitutional Government. Defending democracy by going after dirty money, kleptocrats, and tax dodgers. https://thefactcoalition.org/about-us/staff/ian-gary-2/
"Truly self-destructive, offering none of the nationalist upside but all of the global downside." New @opinion.bloomberg.com @markgongloff.bsky.social column on the absurd oil subsidies handed out by the U.S. highlighted in the new @factcoalition.bsky.social report. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Financial Action Task Force evaluates countries on how well they are going after dirty money. "It’s not just embarrassing for a country to end up on the (grey) list. It can do real damage by making foreign investors more wary of doing business there." @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More coverage of the FACT Coalition's new report, this time from Law360. Read America-Last and Planet-Last: How U.S. Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad - thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a...
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
WATCH - @whitehouse.senate.gov thanks FACT Coalition for our "indispensable work fighting global corruption". It's time to "decorrupt our tax code" so that big oil companies don't pay a lower tax rate than nurses or firefighters. thefactcoalition.org/report/oil-a... @factcoalition.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Launch day! The FACT Coalition's Zorka Milin shares the findings from our latest report. America-Last and Planet-Last: How U.S. Tax Policy Subsidizes Oil and Gas Extraction Abroad. Read it now! @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/oil-and-gas-...
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Excellent coverage by @economist.com of the FACT Coalition's report on illegal gold mining and dirty money flows into the U.S. Read more thefactcoalition.org/report/illeg... @jyansura.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Read the latest in the fight against dirty money and for tax justice - crucial battles now more than ever! @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/fact-calls-f...
September 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I told @icij.org that Treasury's latest moves to gut the Corporate Transparency Act - a pledge to purge data on the true owners of companies - would "double down on Treasury’s unlawful gutting of this statute". @factcoalition.bsky.social www.icij.org/news/2025/09...
September 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
NEW: Senator Warren and Congresswoman Waters slam U.S. Treasury for gutting the Corporate Transparency Act. “Your decision to gut the law has caused growing alarm ... that you are making it easier for criminals to take advantage of the financial system." ct.symplicity.com/t/wrn/d92e7b...
September 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New from Inside Climate News "The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted them, a new report shows." insideclimatenews.org/news/2708202...
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The FACT Coalition's Julia Yansura is in Bogotá speaking on organized crime, financial crime, and threats to the Amazon. Tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxjy... @factcoalition.bsky.social @jyansura.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The International Tax Review ran an interview with me focused on increased calls for companies to disclose their tax payments and strategies. @factcoalition.bsky.social + investors want to see public country-by-country reports to deal w material risks. www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2f3h...
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You can't enforce tariffs while giving a green light to anonymous shell companies. New FACT Coalition opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. @factcoalition.bsky.social www.wsj.com/opinion/be-t...
July 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New from FACT Coalition - More America Last than America First. Our latest policy brief analyzes the HUGE tax cut for America’s largest corporations in the just passed reconciliation bill, costing nearly $170 billion in public revenues over the coming decade. thefactcoalition.org/policy-brief...
July 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Who is bankrolling this ad campaign promoting financial secrecy?
July 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'll be representing the FACT Coalition at the UN Financing for Development Conference next week in Spain. Join our co-sponsored side event July 3 - Safeguarding Domestic Resources and Corruption-Proofing the Financing for Development Agenda: financing.desa.un.org/ffd4/program...
June 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Corporate Transparency Act levels the playing field for small businesses - @mainstreetalliance.bsky.social www.crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/op-ed-...
June 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“The widespread denunciation of Treasury’s illegal move recognizes and reaffirms a simple truth: destroying the Corporate Transparency Act will make Americans less safe,” said Ian Gary, executive director of @factcoalition.bsky.social @occrp.org www.occrp.org/en/news/expe...
June 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Excellent NY Times Magazine coverage of the FACT Coalition's raising the alarm about the Trump administration's dismantling of efforts to fight dirty money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/m...
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My latest opinion piece, US Pharma Investors Deserve Transparency to Understand Tax Risks, is out in Bloomberg Tax. With Merck shareholders voting on a tax transparency resolution, I examine why investors need to be informed about material tax risks. @factcoalition.bsky.social
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May 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I spoke to Bribery Matters on why gutting the Corporate Transparency Act will hobble the global fight against corruption. www.briberymatters.com/post/how-wea...
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Dirty Gold and Dirty Money - RSVP our May 14 FACT Coalition event on illegal gold mining and illicit finance in the Western Hemisphere featuring remarks from two award-winning journalists, Joseph Poliszuk and Arturo Torres. @factcoalition.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"If we care about saving money for the government, then going after the (IRS) would be among the last things that we would do.” Our @factcoalition.bsky.social policy director @zorkamilin.bsky.social was on CNBC slamming moves to slash IRS staffing. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/h...
April 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you are in DC next week for the WB/IMF meetings, join us for an exciting event with African think tanks ACEP and IMANI at the Open Gov Hub. Details here - acep.africa/springmeetin...
April 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM