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We believe our tax systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. Every day, we inspire and equip people and governments to reprogramme their tax systems. taxjustice.net

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

It's impossible to earn a billion, but there are more billionaires every year. How?

We talk w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social about "collected wealth" vs "earned wealth", how we tax them unequally & why #WealthTax protects our earner way of life #TaxTheSuperRich youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 3d

📣Charting just transitions beyond fossil capital - Sabrina Fernandes, Head of Research at the Alameda Institute & Senior Researcher @tidecentre.bsky.social

Next week at #ClimateForChange2025 in Brazil or online: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #COP30 #ClimateJustice #JustTransition

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 3d

Join Monika Dubar, lecturer & researcher at @ufrgs.br, as she as she shares insights on how to develop effective climate policy for Brazil ahead of #COP30

#ClimateforChange2025 in Brazil & online bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #JustTransitions #ClimateJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 4d

💡Join us next week at #ClimateForChange2025

@marimatamoros, @Dejusticia will share insights on the panel “Common but differentiated responsibilities and the role of the ultra-wealthy.”

In Brazil & online🔗 Register: bit.ly/4msXBLi

#COP30 #ClimateJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 4d

📣 Fossil fuels, subsidies and sovereignty: Fiscal tools at a crossroads

There’s still time to join #ClimateForChange2025 - online or in Brazil - for a vital discussion on how tax policy can drive climate justice. 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4msXBLi

#COP30 #ClimateJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 5d

📣 Rethinking fiscal paradigms: feminist, decolonial, and reparative approaches. #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct 📍 UNICAMP, Brazil & online 🔗 Register:https://bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#COP30 #TaxJustice #ClimateJustice #JustTransitions #TaxSovereignty #ClimateFinance

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 5d

🌎📣"The solution to revenue problem should include addressing the historical climate debt owed to African countries by developed countries. Climate finance can only be fair if it includes climate debt. " Michael Otieno Oloo #ClimateForchange2025 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp #COP30

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 5d

💡Join us next week at #ClimateForChange2025: We'll be asking how do we restore fiscal democracy & reclaim a just, sustainable future? Hear from Miriã Marques, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
📅 13–14 Oct - UNICAMP, Brazil & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 5d

Wealth taxes are powerful not because they plug budget holes but because they reprogramme the economy to work for both

🎩WEALTH COLLECTORS🧐 like Elon Musk

and

👷‍♀️WEALTH EARNERS👨‍⚕️ like the rest of us

Full interview with @theguardian.com:
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8

#TaxTheSuperRich #WealthTax

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 5d

⏰⏳ 1 week left to register for #ClimateForChange2025!

Join us in Brazil or online to demand #ClimateJustice through #FairTaxation. ✊

🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

The climate crisis won’t wait. Neither should we. 🌱

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Canadians for Tax Fairness @c4tf.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent interview! @taxjustice.net @theguardian.com 💥💥

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

It's impossible to earn a billion, but there are more billionaires every year. How?

We talk w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social about "collected wealth" vs "earned wealth", how we tax them unequally & why #WealthTax protects our earner way of life #TaxTheSuperRich youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

📣🌱🌎Carbon Conversation with José Antonio Ocampo @icrict.bsky.social

Register today to join #ClimateForChange2025 in Brazil or online: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #COP30 #ClimateJustice #JustTransition

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

It's impossible to earn a billion, but there are more billionaires every year. How?

We talk w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social about "collected wealth" vs "earned wealth", how we tax them unequally & why #WealthTax protects our earner way of life #TaxTheSuperRich youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

It's impossible to earn a billion pounds. Billionaires are economic errors, not economic outcomes.

Watch our chat w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social on why #WealthTax protects the earner way of life from extreme collected wealth. #TaxTheSuperRich
www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich – video

Josh Toussaint-Strauss speaks to Mark Bou Mansour from the Tax Justice Network to untangle some of the myths around a wealth tax, find out how it might work and what is holding governments back from i...

www.theguardian.com

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 8d

📣 Don't miss this panel asking the big question about "Carbon and beyond: Just instruments for pricing pollution. " #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct - UNICAMP, Brazil & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4msXBLi

#COP30 #ClimateJustice #ClimateFinance #JustTransitions

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 9d

📣 Join us for 'Voices around climate and taxation' with Euan Gibb, Regional secretary, Inter-America, Public Services International at #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #COP30 #ClimateJustice #JustTransition

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 9d

📣 Join our panel on Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and the Role of the Ultra-Wealthy to explore global wealth taxes, inequality, and bold fiscal alternatives for a fairer, greener future. #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct - UNICAMP, Brazil & online 🔗 bit.ly/4jbO2zp

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 10d

📢 "Climate problems are no longer far off, they are here. Governments have the right to decide who is taxed on what terms and in whose interests." @katiuskaking.bsky.social, Director, Observatorio Financiero

Join us this Oct #ClimateforChange2025 👉https://bit.ly/4jbO2zp

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 10d

📣Don't miss “Tax Reform, Human Rights and Climate Justice” with Rodrigo Orair, Director of Brazil’s Extraordinary Secretariat for Tax Reform & Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights & #ClimateChange #ClimateForChange2025
🔗 bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#COP30 #ClimateJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 11d

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 11d

📣 The price of going green: Tax gaps in the Energy Transition

What are the real fiscal costs of going green? This panel explores the real fiscal costs of the energy transition. #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 11d

📣 Join us for 'Voices around climate and taxation' with Miriam Nobre coordinator, SOF Sempreviva Organização Feminista at #ClimateForChange2025

📅 13–14 Oct | 📍 UNICAMP & online
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #COP30 #ClimateJustice #JustTransition #TaxJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 12d

"We're rich in natural resources but highly vulnerable to #ClimateChange, & without #FairTaxation, we cannot fund resilience or reduce inequality." Elizabeth Cordova, political economist & independent researcher

Join us this Oct #ClimateforChange2025 👉https://bit.ly/4jbO2zp

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 12d

Sounds like conspiracy? It’s not. Opus Dei, the secretive Catholic institution that controlled a bank for 60 years, with influence across the globe from Franco to MAGA. #Taxcast bit.ly/3INqynB

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 12d

⏰ The clock is ticking! Only 2 weeks until #ClimateForChange2025. Join us in Brazil or online to demand #ClimateJustice through #FairTaxation. ✊

🔗 Register: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

The climate crisis won’t wait. Neither should we. 🌱

#TaxJustice

Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 15d

In our latest podcast, the #Taxcast: @naomifowler.bsky.social talks to @garethgore.bsky.social about Opus Dei, it's influence and its secret bank & Erica Hanichak @factcoalition.bsky.social on the US financial regulator's plans to actually delete company ownership information

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