Publications

‘No borders ’ tax justice:

International taxation of wealth and the finance industry

This briefing calls for the introduction of two new taxes, both to be levied and redistributed at the international level, or pooled and redistributed supra-nationally by participating governments:

  • An international wealth tax

  • An international financial
    transactions tax (FTT)

Climate justice without borders

A 2023 briefing on controlling fossil fuel extraction to fund redistribution for climate justice.

This report sets out a plan for a cap and share system that would tackle the climate crisis, fund a transformational global Green New Deal, and drastically reduce levels of international poverty and inequality. We propose two kinds of system:

  • A global system

  • A country-by-country
    implementation model

A UBI for Half the World

A 2021 briefing on why four billion people need global funding to receive a sufficient basic income.

A worldwide basic income of $30 per person per month, paid to everyone of us as citizens of the world and provided by a global body such as the United Nations, could be our only way to ensure that we all receive a sufficient UBI. It would:

  • Support asylum seekers and migrants

  • Underpin national UBIs

  • Empower us all

Taking Tax to the Global Level

A 2018 paper exploring Southern initiatives that could combine to create a worldwide basic income.

The Global South is arguing strongly for a UN tax body.1 The initial focus is, quite rightly, on reducing tax avoidance and arresting the 'race to the bottom' on corporation tax. But apart from these goals, we should ask what else a UN tax body could achieve. Could it provide:

  • Greater potential for tackling global injustice

  • A meaningful international framework for managing CO2

  • Tackle other international problems

Basic income beyond borders

A 2017 paper exploring how a worldwide basic income could tackle global inequality and extreme poverty​.

Basic income has most often been promoted as a national initiative, provided to citizens of a country by their national government. This has fantastic potential to address inequality in that country and to end poverty there, but it leaves global inequality and poverty untouched. A world basic income would:

  • Redistribute wealth at the world level

  • Tackle global inequalities and
    extreme poverty directly