“Congress spent fifteen years crafting and passing a bipartisan law to help federal, state, and local law enforcement follow the money…Now, many of those same law enforcement leaders are joining together to demand that the Treasury simply carry out the law as Congress intended.”
– FACT Co-Director Erica Hanichak
In this month’s edition of Just the FACTs, FACT hosts an event at the intersection of financial transparency, tax fairness, and democratic renewal, and the Government Accountability Office releases a new report detailing risks associated with Treasury’s gutting of the Corporate Transparency Act.
Read a recap of FACT’s recent conversation with experts from The Sentry and the Center for Climate Crime Analysis exploring the financial drivers of environmental crime, the risks that corporate and financial actors may be exposed to as a result, and the opportunities to use financial intelligence and anti-money laundering frameworks to identify and disrupt financial flows linked to environmental harm.
Read a recap and watch the recording of FACT’s September 22 conversation with Vanessa Williamson (Brookings) and Casey Michel (Human Rights Foundation) exploring why good tax policy and financial transparency are essential to American democracy.
In this month’s edition of Just the FACTs, bipartisan outcry from lawmakers over Treasury’s move to gut the ownership reporting requirements for U.S. companies, and FACT’s research prompts new legislation to end tax subsidies for foreign oil and gas drilling.
