2013, Building Welfare State:
International Conference of Civil Society To Prevent Tax Evasion and Promote Financial Transparency
Wednesday, October 9 2013, 2:00PM
Iroom Hall(B1), Iroom center, 22 Uisadang-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
◎ Conference topic
– What is obstructing tax equity and tax justice in Korea?
– What is the significance of the financial transparency in relation to the tax and fiscal reform in Korea?
– How do we evaulate the impact ICIJ’s ‘offshore leaks’ has exerted wordwide? What are the implications?
– How is the Korean economy affected by multinationals’s behaivor of aggressive tax evasion.
– How are the corporations and the richest abusing tax havens and what are the problems they cause?
– What are the tasks our international cooperation should undertake to prevent money laundering and tax evasion.
◎Hosted by
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
European Network on Debt and Development
Korean Civil Society Forum for Tax Justice
◎Participants from abroad:
Jesse Griffiths, EURODAD
Stéphanie Colin, EURODAD
Pooja Rangaprasad, FTC
First Session
14:00~14:20 Greeting Speech
JUNG Hyun-Baek, Co-representative of PSPD
YUN Yung-Jin, Co-representative of Civil Society Forum for Tax Justice
Ana Beatriz Martins, EU delegation to the KoreaEU Ambassador to Korea
Christoph Pohlmann Resident Representative of FES
PARK Wonsuk, member of the Strategy and Finance Committee, National Assembly
14:20~14:40 Keynote Speech
The reformation of tax and fical system of Korea : Where are we and Where we do go? (Byung-Goo Kang, Center for Tax Justice and Budget Priority of PSPD)
Second Session
How To Enhance Financial Transparency Innationally?
moderated by Gibin Hong, Global Political Economy Institute
14:50~15:00 Presentation 1. PSPD (by Se-eun Jung)
15:00~15:10 Presentation 2. FTC in Asia (by Pooja Rangaprasad)
15:10~15:20 Presentation 3. Eurodad (by Jesse Griffiths)
15:20~15:45 Presenters’ mutual comment
15:45:16:00 Coffee break
16:00~16:50 Panel Discussions
Yu-yong Yi, Tax Justice Network, East Asia Chapter
Ho-rim Yu, Gang-nam University
Jae-han Choi, SpecWatch (Center for Monitoring Speculative Capital)
NewsTapa (Independent media)
Su-jin Cho. Center for Tax justice and Budget Priority, PSPD
16:50~17:10 Discussions
17:10~17:20 Closing Session
Tax Strategy Meeting: Workshop for Civil Society
to Promote Tax Justice movement
Thursday, October, 10 2013, 13:00PM
◎ Overview
The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen communications between civil society workers from various countries. We intend to share everyone’s experiences, troubles and their solutions, strategies of the movements. From this sphere of communication we expect to define the objects and action assignments of the movements more clearly.
◎ Participants:
Center for Tax Justice and Budget Priority of PSPD, MyWelfareState, Tax Justice Network, Eurodad, FTC, Solidarity for Economic Reform, MINBYUN-Lawyers for Democratic Society, Civil Society Forum for Tax Justice, National Finance Institute, Welfare Society, Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice, representatives from various political parties and Anyone else who want to participate.
◎ Programme:
* 2 interpreters will be present for consecutive translation.
13:00~14:00 Lunch and Introductions
14:00~15:00 Sharing Agendas for Tax Justice Movement
15:00~15:20 Coffee Break
15:20~16:30 Presentation: Tax Tool kit (Eurodad)
16:30~17:30 Discussions of Tax Strategies
17:30~17:50 Setting Joint Purposes and Action Assignments
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