Yes, we can build an open and transparent tax system that works fairly for everyone. Do you know how multinationals shift their profits to dodge their taxes and how we can stop them? Our beautifully illustrated new videos tell you how, narrated in five different languages by our tax justice podcast … [Read more...]
Tax Wars
Tax collection, a labour of love: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2020
In the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: we cover the story the mainstream media aren’t telling you – how governments around the world are undermining our tax collection services. We look at how the South Africa Revenue Service was established in very challenging times to become … [Read more...]
Financial Secrecy Index: who are the world’s worst offenders? The Tax Justice Network podcast special, February 2020
In this special extended Taxcast, Naomi Fowler takes you on a whistle-stop guided tour on an express train around the world with some of the Tax Justice Network team, looking at the worst offenders selling secrecy services according to the latest Financial Secrecy Index results What can nations can … [Read more...]
Videos: Touring London, the capital of secrecy
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Edition #5 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: #5 édition de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the fifth 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...]
The Corporate Tax Haven Index: solving the world’s broken tax system in our monthly podcast, the Taxcast
In this month's June 2019 podcast we look at the new Corporate Tax Haven Index released by the Tax Justice Network. What does it tell us about the global economy and the international tax system? And how can we fix it? We also look at how India is pushing the G20 into action on global tax rules - if … [Read more...]
Twenty reasons to shrink your financial centre
(Cross-posted with financecurse.net) The Finance Curse is a concept first developed by the Tax Justice Network. It is a relatively simple idea -- and also an original and powerful multi-level critique of the modern global economy. The core message is "too much finance can make a country … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Brexit and the future of tax havens
This week the Tax Justice Network's John Christensen spoke at this event at the European Parliament organised by the European Free Alliance of the Greens on Brexit and the future of tax havens. Here's more information on the event and you can watch the whole thing here. John spoke on the impact of … [Read more...]
The US’s ‘Trump/Goldman tax law’ and the race to the bottom
The American Interest magazine has published an article by TJN senior adviser James Henry in which he points out that the damage caused by President Trump's tax reforms will ripple out way beyond the USA, where many citizens will be seriously harmed (we reported on the human rights implications of … [Read more...]
Secrecy, oligarchs and offshore psychology in our December 2017 podcast
In our December 2017 Taxcast: We speak with two time Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Jake Bernstein about his new book 'Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite'. We ask what makes offshore players like Jurgen Mossack and … [Read more...]
Passports and residency for sale in our October 2017 podcast
In this month’s Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat inequality, yet governments around the world – most recently President Macron of France – are going in the … [Read more...]
Tax Justice video: How can we avoid another crisis? Expert panel discussion
In this video we hear fascinating presentations and discussion from an expert panel on how another global financial crisis can be avoided, ten years after the first. They focus on the UK, not only on the financial sector itself and the finance curse, but also on the role of the wider financial … [Read more...]
