Covid-19 — will tax justice finally triumph?

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Covid-19 — will tax justice finally triumph?

28 May 2020

The corona crisis is the story of health workers working around the clock to save lives and a health system pushed to the brink by budget restrictions. But it is also the story of money lost because of tax evasion and tax avoidance practices.

Read the blog post by Sophie Lemaître – U4 Senior Adviser

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Sophie LemaîtreIndependent consultant

Topics

Covid-19 and corruption

Illicit financial flows

About the author

Sophie Lemaître

Sophie Lemaître is a lawyer by training with extensive experience in governance, anti-corruption issues, natural resources sector, and illicit financial flows. She has worked for various organisations and NGOs at the national and international level, including CIRAD, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and Sherpa. Between 2019 and 2023, she was a Senior Adviser at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.

She holds a PhD degree in law from the University of Rennes 1 in France, on corruption, tax evasion/avoidance, and money laundering within the extractive industries, a Master degree in international business law from the University of Toulouse, France, and an LL.M. on international and European environmental law from University College London.

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