Centre
for Global Accountability, University of Essex
in
association with
Tax Justice Network
Association
for Accountancy and Business Affairs
Programme for Essex University Workshop : 5-6 July 2011
WORKSHOP ON DEBT, TAX AND HUMAN RIGHTS
THIS
IS PROVISIONAL AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Tuesday
5th July
Arrival &
Registration: 12.00-12.45
Welcome and
Introduction: 12.45 John Christensen (TJN)
Session
1: 13.00-14.45 Chair: Prem Sikka, Essex University
The
Role of Tax in Achieving Human, Social and Economic Rights
Chairman’s
Introductory Comments
Attiya Waris and
Matti Kohonen
Building
Taxation to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
Ignacio Saiz
The
role of fiscal policy in realising economic and social rights: the
"Rights or Privileges" project in Guatemala
Break
Session
2: 15.00 -16.45 Chair: Richard Murphy
Tax
and Social Justice
Peter Dietsch
Efficiency
of what? Tax competition and the promotion of social objectives
Peter Latham
Land
Value Taxation, debt and human rights: A Gramscian Perspective
Ayse Nil
Özbakan Tosun
Effects
of the European Convention on Human Rights on Turkish Tax Policy and
Administration
Tea
Session
3: 17.15 -18.15 Chair: Sarah Knott
Getting
to the Roots of the Problem
Christophe
Farquet
The
Swiss Tax Haven in the Inter-War Period: An International Comparison
John
Christensen, Nicholas Shaxson
The
Shaping of an Ideology of Offshore
Drinks
19h00
Conference Dinner
20h00
Panel Discussion – Debt, Tax and Human Rights led by Nick Dearden
(Jubilee Debt Campaign), Ronen Palan (University of Birmingham) and
Attiya Waris (University of Nairobi)
Wednesday
6th July
Session
4: 09.00-10.30 Chair: Markus Meinzer
Tax
and Change
Tim Knight
Equitable
Distribution of Wealth and Income Through Taxation
Tony Crawford
Capitalism
without Capital: Tracking the Monetisation of Toxic Loans through
Taxation Systems
Emerta Asaminew
Estimating
the Underground Economy in Ethiopia
Session
5: 11.00-12.30: Chair: Liz Nelson
Exploring
Secrecy: Mechanisms and Magnitudes
Jim Henry
The
Price of Offshore Revisited
Steven
Eichenberger, Markus Meinzer
Mapping
Financial Secrecy 2011 – Changes, Process, Methodology and Implications
Alex Cobham,
Petr Jansky
Tracking
'offshore' finance through the crisis: Using the Financial Secrecy
Index to explore the evolution of dirty money flows
Workshop
Ends