After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit will become a reality in just a few days time. January 31st will be a historic moment, for both Europe and the United Kingdom, marked by jubilant celebrations in some circles and profound misgivings in others. One very small but extremely powerful … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy
Tax Justice November 2019 Portuguese podcast: Penalidade máxima: a sonegação no futebol #7
Welcome to our seventh monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. 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. É da sua conta é o podcast mensal em português da Tax Justice Network, com … [Read more...]
Edition 9 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: édition #9 de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the nineth edition of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous cette … [Read more...]
Edition 7 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: #7 édition de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the seventh edition of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ It’s available for anyone who wants to listen to it, … [Read more...]
Tax Justice July 2019 Portuguese podcast: Desigualdade de renda, polarização e Tributação
Welcome to our third monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso novo 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 is … [Read more...]
Immigration as reparations: the Tax Justice Network July 2019 podcast
In this month’s July 2019 podcast we speak with multiple award winning Suketu Mehta about his new book: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto on the fastest way to fix global inequalities and injustices. (A UK version of the book will be published in August 2019.) Plus: we discuss … [Read more...]
How can Africa take action against corporate tax havenry? Solutions from the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2019
How have former colonial powers maintained their stranglehold on African economies? The UK with its spider’s web of satellite jurisdictions and France are complicit in undermining the ability of African governments to tax multinational companies. Other corporate tax havens also put African countries … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Edition #3 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: #3 édition de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the third edition of the Tax Justice Network’s new monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ It’s available for anyone who wants to listen to … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Adapt or step aside: pressure on OECD to reform pre-World War II tax rules as UN convenes historic tax meeting
At the crossroads of the most fundamental global corporate tax reform since the 1920s, the United Nations will hold a special meeting on Monday 29 April on outlining fair tax rules fit for the modern digital economy. The meeting, to be attended by over 50 country delegates and over a hundred tax … [Read more...]
Social protection rights for women vs fear of alienating private interests at the UN
Last week marked the end of the 63rd Meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW 63, March 11th-22nd 2019). More information and analysis is available here from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, well worth a read. This series of events, meetings and deliberations is … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Does transparency REALLY put the rich and famous at risk?
Are the rich and famous at risk of blackmail, extortion or kidnapping if their names are disclosed in public beneficial ownership registries, as they like to argue in tax havens like Jersey? This was a question put to me last week at a conference tackling tax injustice in Nairobi, Kenya, organised … [Read more...]
