🚨 New research alert!
"The Transnational Legal Ordering of Beneficial Ownership Registration" has now been published in Transnational Legal Theory.

The first 50 readers can download our full article for free:
👉 Click www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE7PX...

A 🧵with key takeaways from our study 👇:

Wealth taxes are high on the policy agenda – a key theme at this year’s #G20. Our Deputy Exec Director @louise-rp.bsky.social outlines links btw #BeneficialOwnership and #TaxAbuse, and starts thinking about making BO reforms work for tax in this new piece.

www.openownership.org/en/blog/for-...

Lots of big news this week 📢 @openownership.bsky.social is recruiting our first International Advisory Board! Please spread the word and get in touch if you're interested ✨

Excited to launch this joint project with LSEG Risk Intelligence and the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, cofunded by USAID 🙌🏼 find out more here ⤵️

This week we are at the 4th UN Financing for Development (#FfD4) meetings in New York, making the case that #BeneficialOwnership #transparency has cross-cutting importance to fully implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and to supporting reform of the international financial architecture.

I don’t speak Georgian, but watching this live stream from what looks like middle of night protests in Tbilisi speaks without words: mtavari.tv/en/live?fbcl... Fingers crossed for Georgia.

The Observer had early sight of our report out next week on the money that funds UK election campaigns.

We found that gaps in political finance rules are failing to stop money from questionable sources being funnelled into our politics.

More here:

Lots of food for thought in this on combating climate change while easing the impact on workers from the fossil fuels sector, and the challenges of telling what's green washing and what's actually helpful ⤵️

"Not a single Whitehall department has registered the use of AI systems since the government said it would become mandatory, prompting warnings that the public sector is “flying blind” about the deployment of algorithmic technology affecting millions of lives."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Our @taxjusticenet.bsky.social press release is out: The UN votes marks the real start of a historic overhaul of global tax governance
taxjustice.net/press/united...

New to bsky! Talk to me about digital policy and open government (I can tell you what not to do when designing policy processes, especially if you're a government official). Always happy to exchange notes on food recommendations, Indian classical dance (or any dance really) and the sunday papers.

For wealth taxes to work, governments need to know who owns what. New piece by our Deputy ED @louise-rp.bsky.social

www.openownership.org/en/blog/for-...
#BeneficialOwnership #transparency #TaxAbuse #IFFs #OpenData

Welcome news to see a clear timeline of June 2025 for UK Overseas Territories to implement "accessible" BO registers. Accessible here is meaning a range of options - from legitimate interest with potentially very restrictive access requirements, through to publicly accessible registers...

@openownership.bsky.social is now on Bluesky too, follow us for all things #beneficialownership 🙌🏼

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.

The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

“I think 1.5C was at the intensive care unit and it feels like that bed just broke and it fell on the floor ... That means death, that means misery, for our countries.”... #COP29

Interesting and timely report from Global Energy Monitor
showing the importance of beneficial ownership information for tackling the climate crisis globalenergymonitor.org/report/world...

Great to see the Foreign Secretary begin his campaign against Kleptocrats and dirty money. Next on the agenda should be stopping opaque trusts hiding property ownership, opening up company registers of the UK's offshore secrecy havens and clamping down on enablers. www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl...

Really welcome to see this recognition of the links between #beneficialownership and taxing the super-rich.
At Open Ownership we're seeing increasing opportunities to leverage BOT for effective taxation - my latest blog is on how BOT can support #wealthtaxes ➡️ www.openownership.org/en/blog/for-...