#MemberNews: Umar Cheema´s tax disclosure campaign goes international
(World News Austria)

Pakistani investigative journalism Umar Cheema and Nick Mathiason, director of Financed Uncovered, a training organisation for journalists covering illicit finance, are the brains behind the Tax Disclosure Project, an innovative and unique global initiative that holds politicians to account by asking them to publicly disclose their taxes. The origin of this project dates back to 2012, when Cheema, an International Press Institute (IPI) member, began investigating the tax records of Pakistani government officials, finding that around 70 percent of Pakistan`s lawmakers, including the country`s president and 34 ministers, did not file tax returns. The impact of Cheema`s work was tremendous. In...