Join us to learn how global tax justice could be a tool for reparations and climate justice. Tax the Rich - Everywhere! is a three-part education series developed by the DSA International Committee. It will be held online with an option to participate in person at the People’s Forum in Manhattan, New York.

In our first session, Sergio Chaparro-Hernandez from De Justicia will guide us through How the Global Tax System (Doesn’t) Work. In this primer to the international tax system, we will learn about illicit flows, the extent of tax abuse through profit shifting & tax havens, the Panama Papers & current attempts by Global South nations and tax justice advocates to shift tax governance from the OECD to the UN.

For more information and background about the topics covered in Session 1, check out the following readings:

• Tax Havens: Legal Recoding Of Colonial Plunder by Vanessa Ogle - 2 pages, outlines the colonial roots of our current global tax system:
  https://lpeproject.org/blog/tax-havens-legal-recording-of-colonial-plunder/
• How The OECD Became The World's Tax Leader by Nana Ama Sarfo - equivalent of 5 pages, Forbes article which gives a short overview of how the OECD came to govern tax policy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qvpoquu5REIBkOV0vcxmnoScIF7ov3wq/view
• Delivering climate justice using the principles of tax justice by Franziska Mager & Sergio Chaparro-Hernandez - 16 pages, a position paper presenting a range of tax policies to meet some of the challenges facing the climate justice movement internationally https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Policy-brief-climate-justice_2206.pdf