Following the Panama Papers release, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice renews its call for a United Nations inclusive intergovernmental tax body to be established. Global cooperation is urgently needed to create a fairer global tax system to increase domestic resource mobilization and reduce inequality...Establishing a universal, well resourced, UN intergovernmental tax body is in everyone’s interest...In order for governments to be able to fund Sustainable Development Goals and deliver on their human rights obligations to provide public healthcare, education, water and sanitation, affordable housing and transportation – all countries must have an equal seat at the table to determine equitable international tax practices. Currently, decision-making on global tax rules takes place at the OECD and G20, where more than 100 developing countries are excluded from the opaque processes. This is an important reason why the global tax system has become so fragmented, dysfunctional and unfit to meet the needs of the world’s poorest...