CICTAR conducts research into tax avoidance, corruption and corporate structures in partnership with unions and civil society. Each piece of research is developed to support the campaigns of our partners. We aim to focus our work in countries that are influential globally and to use our body of evidence to advocate for changes to the rules that facilitate the tax dodging and corporate malpractice. Our research tackles some of the biggest challenges facing workers and citizens around the world.
Health and Care
Care is a fundamental human right. Well-funded healthcare systems and comprehensive care for the vulnerable is essential for an equitable and civilised society. CICTAR investigates corporations and venture capital that are encroaching into health and care around the world. We seek to expose where profit is being put before human health and dignity.
Research on Health and Care
Big Tech
The rise of big tech represents an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power. Many of these firms are creating monopolies whilst capturing an increasing share of government contracts. Tax avoidance appears rife among many of the sector’s biggest players, robbing the public purse and increasing wealth inequality. These corporations exercise massive influence in our political systems and this power needs to be checked.
Research on Big Tech
Fossil Fuels and Extractives
Climate chaos is the greatest crisis facing humankind. Fossil fuel companies, and other extractive multinationals, are regularly accused of abusing labour rights, destroying local environments and dodging their taxes in the very countries from which they extract resources. CICTAR’s work with our partners exposing tax dodging and financial secrecy by polluters is essential to building climate justice.
Research on Fossil Fuels and Extractives
Changing the Rules
CICTAR works with partners to help change global tax rules to increase financial transparency and make multinationals pay their fair share. We campaign with unions and civil society organisations at national and global level for key reforms. We also work with investors, especially union-linked pension funds, to pressure companies to alter their behaviour and build momentum for wider change.
