About Naomi Fowler
Global Day of Action: digging the dirt on extractives
As global capitalism continues to lurch from one crisis to the next, massive levels of tax abuse and avoidance are robbing governments of the resources they need to provide basic social services while also contributing to economic instability, fuelling gender inequalities and undermining human rights. Nowhere is this systemic malaise more manifest than in the extractives industry, which pillages the
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s November 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, noviembre 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! Imagen: Protestas en Chile, Natalia Reyes Escobar. En este programa: Rebelión en las urnas y en las calles en América Latina
Read the full article…The UN runs out of money: has your country paid its annual contribution?
Some troubling news you may not have heard about: recently United Nations staff were informed that the United Nations will run out of money due to a 30% underpayment by member states, most notably the United States: if that nation paid what it owed, that would make up at least 60% of the total unpaid contributions for 2019. Here’s a
Read the full article…Edition 22 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast 22# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-second 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…Tax Justice October 2019 Portuguese podcast: O que ganhamos com isenções fiscais à empresas? #6
Welcome to our sixth monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Details of this month’s show below. Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso podcast em português, o podcast mensal da Tax Justice Network, Rede de Justiça Fiscal. Veja abaixo os detalhes do programa em português. É da sua conta é o podcast mensal em português da
Read the full article…Let’s shrink the City of London finance sector, for prosperity’s sake
This week journalist and Tax Justice Network writer Nicholas Shaxson sounded the alarm in Britain’s Guardian newspaper about plans for a “Singapore-on-the-Thames” economic model, a tax haven strategy, after Brexit: The strategy to win the great global race to attract financial capital by lowering taxes, loosening regulations and turning a blind eye to the world’s dirty money.” As he points
Read the full article…Taxing wealth – how to triumph over injustice: Tax Justice Network October 2019 podcast
In this month’s episode we speak to Gabriel Zucman about his new book with co-author Emmanuel Saez – The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay. Plus, as Extinction Rebellion holds protests around the world over the climate emergency, we point the finger at the surprisingly small number of companies which determine whether
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s October 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, octubre 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! En este programa: El callejón sin salida del modelo económico global. ¿Pueden hacer los gobiernos ante una nueva recesión mundial? El
Read the full article…Edition 21 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast 21# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the twenty-first 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…A new vision for Europe amid the Brexit vortex: Tax Justice Network September 2019 podcast
In this month’s episode we discuss a new vision for Europe amid, or in spite of the Brexit vortex. Plus: Britain’s about to become the neighbour from hell, post-Brexit: how can the EU defend citizens from the race to the bottom between nations on tax and regulations precipitated by Britain’s destructive ‘Singapore-on-the-Thames’ model? We speak to David Adler, DIEM25 (Democracy
Read the full article…Tax Justice September 2019 Portuguese podcast: Qual Reforma Tributária o Brasil precisa? #5
Welcome to our fifth monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Details of this month’s show: Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso podcast em português, o podcast mensal da Tax Justice Network, Rede de Justiça Fiscal. Veja abaixo os detalhes do programa em português. É da sua conta é o podcast mensal em português da Tax
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s September 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, septiembre 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! En este programa: ¿Qué pasa con la economía mundial? Entre la guerra comercial de Estados Unidos y China, y el poder
Read the full article…Isle of Man: an awareness-raising swim and reflections on tax havenry
The Isle of Man is part of the UK’s network of satellite havens and secrecy jurisdictions, ranked number 17 in the 2019 Corporate Tax Haven Index and number 42 in the Financial Secrecy Index in 2018 by the Tax Justice Network. We identify the UK as “bearing the lion’s share of responsibility through its controlled network of satellite jurisdictions” for
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