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The Tax Justice Network’s February 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, febrero 2019
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s programme: A story of two worlds: yet more poor people and more billonaires How some
Read the full article…Why has the European Commission not investigated #LuxLeaks tax deals?
Today Simon Bowers of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists asks a very pertinent question, which you can read in full here. Some of the deals signed behind closed doors, brokered by accountancy firm PwC, known as “tax rulings” — meant some companies were able to pay less than 1 per cent tax in Luxembourg, stripping tax revenue away from
Read the full article…Edition 13 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 13# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…Oligopoly Capitalism: economic and democratic threats: the Tax Justice Network’s January 2019 podcast
In Edition 85 of the January 2019 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): Naomi Fowler talks to investor and author Jonathan Tepper who’s co-written a book called ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the death of capitalism’ and explore monopolies, the dangers to consumers and citizens, and the suppression
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s January 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, enero 2019
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s programme: Is Latin America prepared for the coming global economic storms in 2019? Financialisation –
Read the full article…Edition 12 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 12# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twelth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…The gilets jaunes and how NOT to implement an environmental tax: the Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 podcast
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: time’s running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, speaking to the authors of new report A Climate of Fairness: Environmental Taxation and Tax Justice in Developing Countries Plus: we discuss the gilets jaunes in
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s December 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, diciembre 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s programme: The challenges for Mexico’s new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador: can he fulfill his
Read the full article…Edition 11 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 11# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the eleventh edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download
Read the full article…To tackle tax abuse and crime, we must take on the enablers
There is increasing public awareness worldwide of the level of malpractice by (and lack of accountability of) banks, law firms, the offshore magic circle, real estate agents, trust companies, large corporations and so on. Yet the ‘enabler industry’ is mounting a fightback against the modest yet significant transparency obligations imposed on it after Lux Leaks, Swiss Leaks, Panama Papers,
Read the full article…Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system, not a bug: pioneering economist Susan Strange
We’re sharing, with kind permission, the following article written by journalist Nat Dyer for independent global media platform Open Democracy. The global financial crime wave is no accident Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognised. Her message is more urgent than ever. There was a little bit of good news this
Read the full article…Whistleblower protection, plutocrats and dark money: the Tax Justice Network’s November 2018 podcast
In the November 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: we look at how governments can better protect, encourage and even incentivise whistleblowers. what do the latest Brexit developments tell us about dark money, the ‘influence industry’ and plutocracy? And, we hear from the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston on his findings
Read the full article…Tax Justice Network’s November 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, noviembre 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en Castellano). In this month’s programme: We analyse the economic situation facing the new Brazilian government: could the neo-liberal policies
Read the full article…Edition 10 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 10# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the tenth edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to
Read the full article…Whistleblower Rudolf Elmer’s court victory: the long arm of Swiss secrecy law gets shorter
We’ve written many times about Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer’s (pictured above) long legal battles against Swiss banking secrecy here, here, here and here. He’s endured 48 prosecutorial interrogations, 6 months in solitary confinement and 70 court rulings. Of one thing you can be sure – if the Swiss bank he worked for and the Swiss authorities thought it’d be easy
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