The 2021 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA)

The 2021 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) takes place in Brussels (Belgium) from 7-10 September 2021. The EGPA 2021 Conference will be organized by the European Group for Public Administration by EGPA/IIAS Secretariat in close cooperation with key partners.

Check the conference website at: https://www.egpa-conference2021.org/

Tax Law Speaker Series - Ten Truths about Tax Havens: Inclusion and the ‘Liberia’ Problem

There has been a decades-long effort to repair an increasingly fragile international tax system. One reason it has foundered has been what we identify as the ‘Liberia problem’. In 2000, the powerful Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development identified Liberia—but not Switzerland—as a tax haven and targeted it for sanctions.  It did not go well. During the two decades since, everything has changed yet seemingly from this lens of inclusion nothing has changed at all.