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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
Read the full article…How oversized finance sectors are making us poorer in the Tax Justice Network’s October 2018 podcast
In the October 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: we speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer released alongside new research from the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute on the true costs of the City of London’s oversized finance sector to the British economy –
Read the full article…The European Union, tax evasion and closing loopholes: new report
Today, a new report commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and written by the Tax Justice Network’s Andres Knobel demonstrates that despite progress in recent years on closing down opportunities for tax evasion, there are still significant loopholes for citizens and multinationals to evade paying taxes where they are based. The study, “Reporting taxation: Analysing loopholes in the
Read the full article…Tax Justice Network’s October 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, octubre 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 elections in Brasil and the impact on Latin America. The new free trade
Read the full article…Edition 9 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 9# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the ninth 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…Moneyland: plutocracy, contagion and crisis in the Tax Justice Network’s September 2018 podcast
In the September 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: we talk to journalist Oliver Bullough about his new book, just out ‘Moneyland: why thieves and crooks now rule the world, and how to take it back’ We discuss the transnational elite that have broken free of democratic control and corruption contagion. Also, 10 years after the financial
Read the full article…Tax Justice Network’s September 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, septiembre 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: 10 years after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the global economic crisis, is
Read the full article…Edition 8 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 8# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the eighth 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…Extreme inequality levels in Bermuda despite its offshore services centre, in the Tax Justice Network’s August 2018 podcast
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it’s huge offshore services centre? We speak to Bermudian economist Robert Stubbs and hear from Bermudians in the film Poverty in Paradise Also: We discuss the fight-back against two important
Read the full article…Tax Justice Network’s August 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, agosto 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: Latin America: who pays, who dodges: we look at how public spending is financed
Read the full article…Edition 7 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show الجباية ببساطة
Here’s the seventh 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 download
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