Dominik Gross

In November, a large majority of UN member states agreed to a UN Framework Convention on Taxation. In the run-up, our tax policy expert toured the city of New York and the institution.

In New York, a vast majority of UN Member States has voted in favour of a UN framework convention on tax. That is a major success for the Global South and, for the world community, an opportunity to create truly globally applicable rules for the first time in the history of international tax policy.

In 2016, the OECD promised to reform the international tax system such that it would also serve the interests of the Global South. Seven years on, the OECD has clearly fallen short of its own ambitions. It may now be time for the UN to step in.

During the pandemic, the debt brake was declared a national shrine. In financial policy terms, it was deemed a condition sine qua non for Switzerland's successful handling of the crisis. But is that really so? A ride through austerity hell.

What the Federal Council and corporate lobbies are portraying as innocuous support for the shipping industry could prove the biggest tax loophole for Swiss commodities groups and circumvent the new OECD minimum tax.

Does the brutal military attack on Ukraine signal the beginning of the end of globalization, as is being put about by many sources? An attempt to take stock.

After the USA, Switzerland is the world’s most opaque financial centre. This is clear from the new Financial Secrecy Index of the Tax Justice Network (TJN).

Switzerland is not on course for a sustainable world. That's the verdict from Platform Agenda 2030 in its new report, out today. It is calling upon the Federal Council to show more leadership in the transformation needed.

The corona pandemic is leading to a global debt crisis. Poor countries of the South are the ones bearing the brunt of it. Despite some multilateral efforts at debt relief over the past two years, the situation is growing steadily worse.