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.
Anonymous companies have been linked to money laundering, fraud, drug trafficking, sanctions evasion, corruption, tax crimes, human trafficking, organized crime, terrorist financing, and other forms of illicit activity. The Corporate Transparency Act remains our best tool to fight back.
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.
In this month’s edition of Just the FACTs, FACT-endorsed corporate tax transparency legislation is reintroduced in the House and Senate, sparks fly at FinCEN’s annual HFSC oversight hearing, FACT announces an event bridging transparency issues and American democracy, and more.
Over the past year, the U.S. has both rolled back major anti-money laundering reforms and taken its foot off the gas on white collar enforcement. To safeguard our democracy and protect U.S. national security, the U.S. must redouble its efforts to adequately assess and prevent illicit finance risks.
In this month’s edition of Just the FACTs, Erica Hanichak and Zorka Milin are named FACT co-directors, Microsoft and other major multinationals release their first EU international tax reports, Julia Yansura contributes to hard-hitting reporting on Ecuadorian gold, and more.
