GLOBAL TAX HAVEN DATA REPOSITORY

The objective of the program is to support countries to mobilize domestic resources to finance their national development priorities and the SDGs in a fairer way by reducing tax evasion and illicit financial flows. The program has two main outputs. The first is to create and disseminate a public up to date and user friendly data and research repository centralizing existing statistics and studies on taxation in developing countries. In this workstream Paris School og Economics will partner with the World Bank in gathering insights from their country specific work. The second is to produce new research to provide new insights and updated numbers on the extent and characteristics of hidden offshore wealth illicit financial flows tax evasion and tax avoidance with particular emphasis on topics relevant for low and middle income countries. The program builds on and extends the work of the EU Tax Observatory.