FACT program director for environmental crimes and illicit finance Julia Yansura was quoted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in their coverage of the remittance tax provision included in the 2025 budget megabill.
“While Congress’ remittance tax raises relatively little money for the United States, these paltry funds will come with a huge illicit finance risk, driving financial flows underground.”
FACT policy director Zorka Milin was quoted by TaxNotes in their coverage of a new Department of Justice budget memo that would eliminate its’ tax division.
“Cutting prosecutions of tax cheats is one of the most short-sighted and least efficient moves any government can make.”
FACT policy director Zorka Milin was quoted by the Washington Post in their coverage of a provision included in the House’s version of the budget megabill that was lobbied for and benefits one particular firm.
“The purpose of the 2017 tax law… was to deter the use of these kinds of tax havens. This would undermine that very purpose.”
FACT’s executive director, Ian Gary, was quoted by the New York Times Magazine on the dismantling of the US’ anti-money laundering regime.
“The pace of change and unraveling of a lot of the protections and safeguards related to dirty money coming into the United States has been pretty dizzying”.
FACT’s May event, Illegal Gold Mining and Dirty Money: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Environmental Crime in the Americas, was covered by Yahoo! News.
FACT executive director Ian Gary published an op-ed in Bloomberg Tax on a shareholder resolution at pharma giant Merck that calls for greater tax transparency practices.
