The WU Global Tax Policy Center (GTPC) at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business launched and ran the Tax and Good Governance Project from 2015-2018.

The project identified links between corruption, the lack of business and political integrity and tax crimes. It promoted the concepts of good tax governance and the importance of a corrupt-free and transparent tax system in achieving economic development. It also covered how law enforcement agencies and tax authorities can cooperate to counter corruption and bribery.

The project aimed to enforce a “Healthcare Integrity System” in the Italian healthcare sector to improve the national healthcare sector’s efficiency and to reduce the risk of corruption through transparency, integrity and accountability. The project aimed to increase the awareness of corruption, educate and train, and implement and test innovative anti-corruption tools and organizational models through Collective Action initiatives with hospitals, Local Health Authorities (LHA), civil society and companies.

The main objectives of the project were to:

The Transparency International Secretariat will promote business integrity at three levels (individual businesses, groups of businesses, and the business environment), all of which are underpinned by Collective Action.

In order to achieve the objective of facilitating change at scale, the project aimed to improve the capacity of Transparency International to work as a catalyst for Collective Action at national level in multiple countries and advocate improved standards, norms and practices within international fora and initiatives. This involved:

Initiative

MedKompas

The MedKompas initiative of POLMED has focused on fighting corruption and raising the importance of compliance in healthcare systems in Poland since 2010. POLMED believes that if the gap between the legislation and people’s values and social norms is too large, then even the most restrictive legal regulations will not help to fight corruption. This is why the activities are geared towards shaping ethical values in the public and private healthcare sectors.

During the MedKompas II project, POLMED:

Initiative

Fair Player Club

The Fair Player Club endeavored to provide business participants and stakeholders with knowledge, skills, strategies, and resources to promote anti-corruption dialogue and Collective Action as well as to advance ethical practices and transparency in business operations within their industry, region, and country by engaging with industry associations, local and foreign chambers of commerce, central and metropolitan city governments, and foreign embassies in South Korea throughout the three-year project.

The goal of the project is to sensitise, capacitate and help large companies to adopt responsible business practices and influence their supply chains as well as involve local stakeholders and governmental agencies to create awareness.

The project is aimed at increasing awareness of current anti-corruption laws and regulations and promoting healthy business practices that are sustainable and replicable. Also, increasing the scope of the existing legislations may also effectively prevent problems for the payer.

The Indian business community practices a multitude of anticorruption initiatives in silos. The Center encourages a shared focus among the business stakeholders in India and provide a platform for greater coordination, thereby increasing the reach and impact of business initiatives.

Essentially, the Center aims to: