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Welcome oligarchs, erode democracy: our March 2018 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast: They say history is written by the victors. So how can we rethink the way we use words about tax havens that reflect the reality of what’s really happening? We talk to Alain Deneault about his new book in which he writes about ‘laundering with language’ – Legalising Theft: a short guide to tax havens. Plus:
Read the full article…New report: German-African research linking illicit and criminal financial flows with global poverty
The Tax Justice & Poverty research project is a co-operative effort between three institutions run by the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church: the Jesuitenmission based in Nuremberg (Germany), the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection in Lusaka (Zambia) and the Jesuit Hakimani Centre in Nairobi (Kenya). Work started in 2012 and Dr. Jörg Alt of Jesuitenmission summarises some of the conclusions
Read the full article…Our March 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, marzo 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded 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 United States is on the way to becoming the most important tax have on the
Read the full article…Video: discussion on tax revenue losses, Apple’s tax avoidance and ‘state aid’
We’re sharing here the opening panel discussion of the June 2017 European Financial Congress, Eastern Europe’s largest finance congress in Gdansk, Poland. The theme of the panel was “Tax solidarity in the world and in the EU” and it features visiting Professor at Oxford University Philip Baker QC and the Tax Justice Network’s Markus Meinzer discussing tax revenue losses to
Read the full article…Bring in new tax to curb avoidance by multinationals: new report
A new report out today by Grace Blakeley from the progressive policy think tank IPPR argues for a re-balancing of the business taxation system. Titled Fair dues: Rebalancing business taxation in the UK, the report proposes: a series of reforms aimed at achieving a fairer burden of taxation between different kinds of businesses and taxpayers, while supporting employment, wages and
Read the full article…Video: the high cost of finance and the finance curse
In this film Dr Gerald Epstein discusses his work on how an oversized financial services sector such as the City of London, or Wall Street, can extract wealth from an economy, leading to lower growth, higher indebtedness, and rising inequality. This talk was given as a keynote lecture at a research workshop on the Finance Curse co-organised by the Tax
Read the full article…Edition 2 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show الجباية ببساطة
Here’s the second 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 is available for listeners to download and it’s available for free to radio networks to broadcast across the region. You can
Read the full article…Guest blog: Stopping public contracts for tax cheats
We’re pleased to share this important blog from the Fair Tax Mark‘s Chief Executive Paul Monaghan, orginally posted here. The Fair Tax Mark’s inception was supported by the Tax Justice Network and it continues to do great work. As Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK summarises very nicely, Fair tax is the new fair trade…All it takes is for
Read the full article…Guest blog: Tax Avoidance and Evasion in Africa
We’re pleased to share this blog post (first published here) written by Nataliya Mykhalchenko for the Review of African Political Economy: Tax avoidance, tax evasion, tax heavens, illicit financial flows and global tax governance are real buzzwords that have come to dominate current international political and financial domains. Tax avoidance, understood as the use of the so-called ‘loopholes’ in the
Read the full article…The killing of the American Dream and Trump’s Tax Reform in our February 2018 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast: we look at the United States, Trump’s tax reforms and the killing of the American Dream. Plus: as we see yet another school shooting, should the powerful National Rifle Association continue to be a tax-exempt, non-profit organisation? Also, we discuss ongoing state-capture in Malta as the European Banking Authority investigates Pilatus bank, the subject of murdered
Read the full article…Our February 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, febrero 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In the February 2018 programme: we discuss the revelations from the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index results and
Read the full article…Illicit financial flows and the tax haven and offshore secrecy system
We’re sharing below the work of one of our senior advisers, Sol Picciotto, Emeritus Professor of Law at Lancaster University on defining illicit financial flows. You can also hear him interviewed on this subject in our podcast: Illicit financial flows and the tax haven and offshore secrecy system The importance of reducing, and eventually eliminating, illicit financial flows, has now
Read the full article…Financial Secrecy Index 2018: watch and listen
This week the Tax Justice Network released the results of the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index bringing the real story on global corruption to the world’s attention. We’ve seen some of the usual protests from some in the offshore world but what they cannot get away from, much as they might like to, is that the index is based on objective,
Read the full article…The Financial Secrecy Index: the real story on global corruption in our January 2018 podcast
In our January 2018 Taxcast we explore the results of the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index just out, that tell the real story of global corruption. We look at: the top ten worst global offenders the 4 key geographical political poles: the Far East, Europe, Britain plus its cluster of satellite tax havens, and the United States and what
Read the full article…Our January 2018 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, enero 2018
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In edition 19 of our podcast/radio show, January 2018: What’s in store for the global economy and Latin America in
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