# Civil society coalition calls on G20 to tackle illicit financial flows URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/civil-society-coalition-calls-on-g20-to-tackle-illicit-financial-flows Type: Press release Published: 2010-04-20 Updated: 2020-04-07 --- 20 April 2010 **We, the undersigned civil society organisations, urge the Group of Twenty Countries (G20) to:** - recognise the link between illicit outflows of capital from developing countries, absorption of those resources by tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, and the adverse impact those flows have on poverty alleviation and economic development; - call on the Financial Action Task Force to amend its recommendations 33, 34, and VIII to provide that the beneficial ownership of all companies, trusts, foundations and charities be made a matter of public record; - reiterate the need for all jurisdictions to help recover the proceeds of bribery, embezzlement and other forms of corruption, and in particular to call on states to increase resources to investigate and prosecute corruption cases; to encourage the use of both criminal and non-conviction based asset forfeiture methods, and to provide coordinated, timely and effective mutual legal assistance, as promised by the G8 Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Declaration of 11 May 2004; - instruct the International Accounting Standards Board to recommend that all multinational corporations report their income and taxes paid on a country by country basis; and - call on the OECD to create and promote a single multilateral agreement for effective tax information exchange between all jurisdictions. 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Republic of Macedonia DISCOVER Pakistan Foundation Open Society Institute F.Y. Republic of Macedonia GINI -Governance Institutions Network International Pakistan Transparency Zero Corruption F.Y. Republic of Macedonia PILDAT -Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development & Transparency Pakistan Transparentnost Macedonia F.Y. 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