Responsible Tax

The Responsible Tax project, in partnership with KPMG International, started with a simple proposition – that tax is the entry fee we pay for a civilized society. The community began in 2014 with a discussion among only fourteen people in the UK and has since flourished as a global peer-to-peer network of expertise, influence and change.

As a result of the conversations shared and connections made, a new global consensus is emerging on Responsible Tax and, more broadly, on the purpose of tax itself. Engaged organizations include a number of major corporate players, alongside the OECD, United Nations, the IMF, World Bank, World Economic Forum and the B-Team, which in early 2018 released its own Responsible Tax principles. In the UK, the pilot market for the KPMG programme, there is now an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Responsible Tax as well as an independent Responsible Tax Lab.

The Global Responsible Tax project has now evolved from discussing mainly corporation and international tax issues to environmental tax, the wider tax governance and transparency agenda and the future of work. The project is valued by many different kinds of stakeholders to bring a multitude of voices to the table, which otherwise would not be in the same room together often to discuss difficult issues with contrasting points of view, to better understand each other and progress the global conversation. It continues to expand across borders and industries, and we now have a community of over 1,700 voices from businesses, to NGOs, to investors, to policymakers; across the whole spectrum. You can visit the dedicated web platform here. 

For Further Information, please contact:
Becky Holloway, Programme Director