Whistleblower Rudolf Elmer: legal opinion on latest ruling
We’ve written many times about Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer’s long legal battles against Swiss banking secrecy here, 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 to
Read the full article…Edition 17 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 17# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the seventeenth 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…Our new tax justice monthly podcast in Portuguese: nosso novo podcast em português
The Tax Justice Network now speaks tax justice in five languages on radio stations and podcast platforms across the world, all with their own unique content and style – English, Spanish, French, Arabic and now Portuguese. So, welcome to our brand new monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso
Read the full article…Transforming local economies: the Preston Model – a Taxcast special edition, May 2019
In this special extended edition of the May 2019 Taxcast we go to Preston in the North of England to see the Preston Model in action and how they’re transforming their local economy and democratising wealth. Also: we discuss dark money and the European elections – the elite interests aligning with the far right. And we ask: why doesn’t Britain
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s May 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, mayo 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: Latin America’s seemingly unstoppable debt Ecuador’s tax haven law and the politicians flouting it
Read the full article…Edition 16 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 16# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the sixteenth 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…Rising inequality and dysfunction in the tax haven of Jersey: a Taxcast special edition
In this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey: we explore Jersey’s poor showing in the OECD’s Better Life Index and ask why Jersey’s spending so much money on improving its bad image instead of setting up public registers of beneficial ownership information we interview the tax haven of Jersey’s former Chief
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s April 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, abril 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: The first 100 days of Jair Bolsonaro The IMF closes in on Latin America
Read the full article…India and the renegotiation of its double tax agreement with Mauritius: an update
A few years ago we featured a guest blog by award winning essay writer and legislative aide to a Member of Parliament in India Abdul Muheet Chowdhary. He wrote here about the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Mauritius, a favourite tax haven for Indians, which we’re sharing in full below, along with a fascinating update from him on what’s happened since then.
Read the full article…Edition 15 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 15# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the fifteenth 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…Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash in the Tax Justice Network March 2019 podcast
In Edition 87 of the March 2019 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): we discuss misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative and omitted alternative
Read the full article…The Tax Justice Network’s March 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, marzo 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: Justicia Impositiva reveals the shadow of tax havens hanging over one of Ecuador’s most
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