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Beneficial ownership and wealth taxation: Input to the UK Wealth Tax Commission

blogs Louise Russell-Prywata · Dec 2020

As wealth inequality and public debt rises in many countries around the world, the issue of wealth taxation is gaining greater political prominence. A recent UK survey of views on publicly funded services, wealth and inequality found that three-quarters of...

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Merging and de-duplicating beneficial ownership data

blogs Steve Day · Nov 2020

Part Three in a series of technical posts, collecting our experience from three years of the Global Beneficial Ownership Register

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Beneficial Ownership reform in Africa: analysing progress in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

blogs Karabo Rajuili · Nov 2020

Ghana and Kenya recently launched Africa’s newest online central beneficial ownership (BO) registers in October of this year. In August, the much anticipated legislative basis for Nigeria’s central register of persons of significant control (PSC) was enacted through the Companies...

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Video - Building back better: beneficial ownership transparency during a crisis

blogs Open Ownership · Nov 2020

On 5 November, 2020, Open Ownership and the Open Government Partnership led a high-level panel discussion on how beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) is of paramount importance in order to both strengthen public procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure relief...

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Mexico: Laying the foundations for beneficial ownership transparency

blogs Peter Low · Nov 2020

Mexico is one of more than 90 countries worldwide to have committed to transparency over who ultimately owns and controls companies incorporated in its jurisdiction. One of the first areas that government stakeholders are considering as part of its beneficial...

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My first year as Open Ownership’s Executive Director

blogs Thom Townsend · Oct 2020

I have been Executive Director of Open Ownership for a little over a year now, and it is time to publicly reflect on my experience and share some thoughts about what we have done.

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