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Joseph Rowntree Foundation invest £100,000 in Fair Tax Foundation expansion plans

The Fair Tax Foundation is pleased to announce we have received a £100,000 direct social investment commitment from charitable foundation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

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Fair Tax Mark and the Tax Responsibility and Transparency Index: What’s the difference?

The Fair Tax Foundation have been awarding the Fair Tax Mark to organisations paying their fair share of tax for ten years. The Mark is the gold standard of responsible tax conduct and more than 250 distinct trading businesses are now proud to say they are accredited with it. This year, along with leading European corporate responsibility business network CSR Europe, …

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Clean energy giant Iberdrola first Spanish business awarded Fair Tax Mark

The Fair Tax Foundation are pleased to announce renewables business Iberdrola have achieved the Fair Tax Mark and are the first Spanish business to do so. Iberdrola Group develop grids, renewable energy activities and electricity trading in Europe, the US, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. As at December 2023 they were the largest utility company in Europe by market cap. Read …

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Coventry Building Society’s Newton: ‘Tax can be pivotal in many business decisions’

Fair Tax Leaders features senior professionals from across the Fair Tax Mark accredited business community. Here, Coventry Building Society Senior Manager Finance Ops and Controls Claire Newton discusses the evolving role of the tax function and the benefits of increased reporting requirements. Coventry Building Society are the UK’s second largest building society and were first accredited in 2022. They were founded …

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Tax Responsibility and Transparency Index has a new website!

The Tax Responsibility and Transparency Index has a brand-new website, allowing multinational companies even better access to this pioneering benchmarking tool. The Index, which was announced at the European Parliament in April 2024, enables businesses to benchmark themselves against high-bar, civil society frameworks, pending legislation and pioneering companies broken down by country or sector. This leadership pool is anonymised but participating …

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Barrow Cadbury Trust boost Fair Tax Foundation community share offer by £100,000

We are delighted to have received £100,000 investment from charitable foundation the Barrow Cadbury Trust, taking our community share offer more than 25% of the way to our target. On 2 September 2024, we launched a community share offer on social investment platform Ethex looking to raise £450,000 to expand our operations and bring five times as many businesses into …

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Sector special: Fair tax helps building societies meet ‘higher expectations’ of social responsibility

In this series for the Fair Tax Foundation, our accredited organisations tell us how the Fair Tax Mark has helped open opportunities or overcome challenges specific to their sector. Here, Coventry Building Society Senior Manager Finance Ops & Controls Claire Newton and Ecology Building Society CEO Gareth Griffiths discuss the responsibility to members inherent to building societies. Events such as the 2008 financial crisis, …

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Mercat Tours International lead the way with Fair Tax Mark accreditation

Scotland-based Mercat Tours International have been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, joining progressive businesses across the UK and Europe accredited to the gold standard of responsible tax conduct. For more than two decades, Mercat Tours International have offered tour packages to some of the key sites of 20th century European history. Through World War I and World War II tours …

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Mercat Tours walk the talk with Fair Tax Mark accreditation

Mercat Tours have been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, joining progressive businesses across the UK and Europe accredited to the gold standard of responsible tax conduct. Founded in 1985 by a group of history teachers, Mercat Tours offer history walks, ghost tours and private tours across Edinburgh and Scotland. Providing visitors with “a warm welcome and a damn good story”, …

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The Fair Tax Foundation launch £450,000 Community Share Offer

Founded a decade ago to help reverse the global race to the bottom on corporation tax, the Fair Tax Foundation[1] are aiming to level up our impact fivefold with a Community Share Offer unveiled today. Launching on social investment platform Ethex[2], the Community Share Offer will seek to raise £450,000 to allow the Fair Tax Foundation to embed tax justice …

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