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Tax Justice and Human Rights Essay Competition

Oxfam and the Tax Justice Network are joining together to launch a tax justice and human rights essay competition for legal students and professionals. With tax justice rising up the human rights agenda, they want to hear your ideas on how human rights law can be used in the fight against tax dodging.

Here’s what they say about the competition:

Tax justice is a human rights issue
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International tax dodging by multinational corporations and wealthy elites costs countries both rich and poor billions of dollars a year in lost revenues. This is undermining vital public services where they are most needed and further driving inequality at a time when the richest 62 people in the world have as much wealth as half the world’s population.  Overall, substantial damage is done to human rights through the use of tax havens, the opacity of corporate accounting, the manipulation of trade prices and the disguising of beneficial ownership. But national and international fora may provide scope for redress.

Take a look at their website to find out what you need to do!

Deadline = 13th March 2016.

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