PSI Tax Justice & Anti-Corruption Forum

The event was hosted by La Asociación del Personal de los Organismos de Control (APOC), in connection with the 10th anniversary meeting of the Unión Latinoamericana de Trabajadores de Organismos de Control. (Please see the ULATOC website for news and documents related to those proceedings.)

Guest speakers for the Tax Justice and Anti-Corruption Forum included: Dr. Hector Rodriguez, tax expert (Argentina); Milt Isaacs, President, Association of Canadian Financial Officers (ACFO-ACAF); Déborah Itriago, Oxfam Intermón economic justice researcher; Elizabeth Villagomez, UN Women economic governance advisor (Panama); Luis Moreno, economist and director, LATINDAD (Peru); Enrique Daza Gamba, founder and director of the Centro de Estudios del Trabajo (Colombia); Teresa Marshall, PSI communications coordinator, and Daniel Bertossa, PSI senior policy and advocacy officer. (Please see the following links for individual speakers’ presentations.)

Union leaders made specific commitments to involve their members and join together in civil society coalitions to advance tax justice and anti-corruption initiatives. Another outcome of the forum was a strong statement on the need for coordinated action on tax justice and anti-corruption:

Public Services International Tax Justice and Anti-Corruption Declaration

Briefing on tax justice issues - Inter America

Presentations:

English

• Fiscal justice, public services and workers by Elizabeth Villagomez, UN Women
• PSI Tax Justice by Teresa Marshall, PSI

Spanish

• ¿Por qué la corrupción es un tema para los sindicatos? por Jürgen Buxbaum, ISP
• Evasión fiscal multinacional por Daniel Bertossa, ISP
• Desafío del siglo XXI controlar a los gobernantes por Dr. Hector Rodriguez, Argentina
• Sobre la desigualdad (de género) y la fiscalidad por Déborah Itriago, Oxfam Intermón
• El debate de la Justicia Fiscal en el ámbito regional y global por Luis Moreno, LATINADD, Perú
  
  

Photos of the event

ULATOC documents (en español)