The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law announced in its newsletter that the virtual launch of the book Taxing Crime: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering and Tax Crimes (see my previous post) will take place on 28 November 2022:

TheWU Global Tax Policy Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is pleased to invite you to a virtual event co-hosted together with the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative of World Bank and United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to disseminate the joint publication on Taxing Crime: The Whole-of-Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering and Tax Crimes, which was published earlier this year. The event will be held online on November 28, 2022 at 9:00 AM ET / 3:00 PM CET.

This publication aims to show the benefits of interagency cooperation between tax authorities and law enforcement agencies working on preventing, detecting, and recovering the illicit financial flows derived from tax evasion, corruption, and money laundering.

Prof. Jeffrey Owens and Mr. Siddhesh Rao, LL.M from our Institute will be on the panel together with representatives from Stolen Asset Recovery initiative, the World Bank, Kenya Revenue Authority, Uganda Revenue Authority and Integrity reporting services agency of Mauritius at the event discussing critical findings of the book.

Please tune in to this virtual book launch featuring the views of practitioners from East Africa & drawing upon the experiences of other developing countries and learning from their experiences.

Please register at the following link: http://short.wu.ac.at/wustarbook to listen to the experiences of experts from StAR Initiative, the World Bank and practitioners from east Africa and developing countries in implementing inter-agency cooperation.

Addition 12 May 2023
The newest terminology is the “Whole-of-Society” approach in fighting financial crime“, read FATF in this twitter post:

At the FATF Private Sector Consultative Forum, FATF President T. Raja Kumar reiterated the importance of private sector participation in FATF work, given the need for a “Whole-of-Society” approach in fighting financial crime

My comment: From the Whole-of-Government approach FATF now has moved to a Whole-of-Society approach – but still the concepts of FATF are fundamentally flawed, leading to a surveillance society and irresponsibly giving tasks to private companies unfit for that.