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For wealth taxes to work, governments need to know who owns what
Wealth taxes are high on the policy agenda – a key theme at this year’s G20, and proposed as a solution to help countries find the USD 1 trillion annual financing needed to meet United Nations (UN) climate goals. To effectively enforce wealth taxes, governments need to get better at collecting and sharing data on where the super-rich hold their money.
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 19 November 2024
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Financing for Development: Beneficial ownership transparency as a fundamental reform to drive sustainable development
In 2025, Spain will host the Fourth Financing for Sustainable Development (FfD4) Conference with heads of state and high-level officials from UN member countries. This emerging thinking piece outlines the key opportunities to advance the potential of beneficial ownership transparency through FfD4 and beyond.
Written by Agustina De Luca
Published: 29 October 2024
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Beneficial ownership data in extractive licensing: One year in
This blog post explores how the Opening Extractives team has worked with various countries over the past year to integrate beneficial ownership information into key decision-making processes for extractive licences and contracts
Written by Phoebe Williams
Published: 11 September 2024
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The power of partnerships to combat corruption
This blog post presents an interview with Kari Lucas, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer at UNODC, and Louise Russell-Prywata, Deputy Executive Director of Open Ownership, about the joint efforts of both organisations to ensure that beneficial ownership data is not only available but also utilised to maximise its impact in the fight against corruption
Written by Agustina De Luca , Kathryn Davies
Published: 04 September 2024
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Landmark Philippine procurement law contains key provisions on beneficial ownership
This blog post explores the New Government Procurement Act (Republic Act No. 12009), signed into law 20 July 2024, and its key provisions on beneficial ownership
Written by Emily Manuel , Kirbee Tibayan
Published: 04 September 2024
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Updating our mapping of GLEIF data to BODS to better capture the lifecycle of LEI data changes
This blog post unveils improvements that Open Ownership has made to how we map and republish corporate ownership data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Kadie Armstrong , Kathryn Irish , Ed Lloyd-Davies, Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 16 August 2024