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The Black Tax
The Taxcast - June 28, 2024 16:15 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode: we go to the US to look at how African Americans were overtaxed and dispossessed - a lesser known story of struggles against tax injustice, from the experience of George Floyd's great great grandfather to this day. Taxcast host Naomi Fowler speaks to historian and author Andrew ...
The Corrupting of Tax Justice
The Taxcast - June 01, 2024 13:48 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode: we bring you stories on how we've all been cheated, and look at some of the actors involved in the corruption of tax policy making in Australia; the consequences have rippled out to affect the rest of the world. Two of the OECD's top people seem to be compromised on matters of t...
Blockchain havens
The Taxcast - April 30, 2024 15:49 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings"This will supersede them all." Offshore specialist and human rights lawyer Paul Beckett of Corlett Bolton & Co sounds the alarm on the fast development of 'blockchain havens.' The Tax Justice Network's Bob Michel speaks about the challenges regulators, anti-corruption campaigners and poorer n...
Crime DOES pay...?
The Taxcast - March 28, 2024 21:31 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsCrime doesn't pay - or does it?! Taxcast host Naomi Fowler talks to former police investigator, asset recovery specialist and co-author of The War on Dirty Money Tristram Hicks about the state of criminal asset recovery: "We haven't started the war on dirty money. There's this disconnect that's ...
Taxing multinationals, unitary-style
The Taxcast - February 29, 2024 18:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhile we wait for a global tax body at the United Nations, what are the ways forward for nations desperate to tax multinationals fairly? We talk unitary taxation in a special extended interview with Emeritus Law Professor, coordinator of the BEPS Monitoring Group and Tax Justice Network special ...
#139 People Power
The Taxcast - January 26, 2024 14:38 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOn the Taxcast this month: People power for tax justice is on the rise like never before. We kick off 2024 with inspiring stories on campaigns for tax reform from around the world: strategies, successes, limitations, and what we can learn from the first in-depth studies of their kind by Interna...
Introducing The Corruption Diaries
The Taxcast - January 18, 2024 16:52 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this brand new Tax Justice Network weekly podcast we take listeners on a journey through the eyes of anti-corruption veterans who were on the frontline of events that have defined our world today, with stories and perspectives on reform you won't hear anywhere else. In Series 1 we sit down ...
#138 Overturning a 100 year legacy: the UN tax vote
The Taxcast - December 18, 2023 21:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn an extended Taxcast edition this month, a century of tax rule setting by the former imperial powers has been overturned: we look at the UN vote on global tax reform. Taxcast host Naomi Fowler follows events at the UN, the failed efforts to block it and explores what it all means with Alex Co...
The People vs Microsoft
The Taxcast - November 30, 2023 15:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOn the Taxcast this month, the story of what happened when the US tax authorities, the IRS, decided to crack down on Microsoft, one of the world's biggest tech companies. Worthy of a thriller movie with its twists and turns, there are many lessons for governments worldwide. And it's not over yet...
Drug War Myths, Part 2
The Taxcast - October 26, 2023 17:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe US government has spent an estimated $1 trillion on their ‘war on drugs.’ But over 50 years later, the cross-border flows of illegal drugs, arms and money have increased. In the second part of a two part series, we look at the failed so-called ‘war on drugs’ - the movement to decriminalise, ...
Drug War Myths, Part 1
The Taxcast - September 28, 2023 16:10 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe US government has spent an estimated $1 trillion on their 'war on drugs.' But, over more than 50 years, the cross-border flows of illegal drugs, arms and money have increased. It's a mess. And it didn't need to be this way. We look at the failed so-called 'war on drugs' and how to stop wasti...
Who owns the climate crisis?
The Taxcast - July 27, 2023 19:15 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe're experiencing the hottest global temperatures ever recorded. For millions of us, the climate crisis is already hitting hard. And we need to know, we must know - WHO are the beneficial owners of the climate crisis? It's surprisingly difficult to find out... Featuring: Franziska Mager, Se...
Spoiled pets and private jets
The Taxcast - June 29, 2023 18:07 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode Naomi Fowler looks at how the very wealthy shape the world, why the rest of us really, really can't afford them. And, how it never ends just with the pet mansions and the cashmere-lined private jets, as the fascinating story of the EU Court of Justice ruling (reversing progress o...
Monopolies and market power
The Taxcast - May 25, 2023 20:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen dominant multinationals get to run the world, it's not a happy place. Or a very secure one. For a long time governments have failed to take the threat from monopolies and the corporate concentration of power seriously, and deal with it. But recent crises have demonstrated how the neoliberal...
Tax Saves Lives
The Taxcast - May 01, 2023 20:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt's horrific that there are so many people across the world who still don’t have access to ‘survival rights.’ Things like basic sanitation, clean water, quality education, decent healthcare so that mothers can survive childbirth - and so their children can even survive their childhood! This is...
Organised crime and financial secrecy
The Taxcast - February 23, 2023 22:22 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAfter 30 years on the run, Italy's most wanted fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro of the Cosa Nostra has been arrested in Sicily. We look at the costs of organised crime, both economic and societal, the contagion that financial secrecy facilitates, and how to reverse the rot. Secrecy jurisdictions...
The Making of Tax Haven Mauritius
The Taxcast - January 31, 2023 23:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this extended special episode of the Taxcast, we look at the 'Desai Papers' - the story you probably never heard of: it goes back decades and looks at a key player in the making of tax haven Mauritius that's been hurting Indians and Africans ever since. We speak with a whistleblower and the...
The Day Global Power Shifted
The Taxcast - December 16, 2022 21:50 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThere's been a shift in global power, a tax justice milestone, and the powerful nations couldn't stop it... In this episode, Naomi Fowler gives you a fly-on-the-wall take on what happened at the United Nations on November 24th 2022. We look at the power plays around a fundamental global power ...
Uncommon Wealth and the 'boomerang effect'
The Taxcast - November 18, 2022 16:06 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode, Taxcast host Naomi Fowler discusses sovereignty, the 'boomerang effect' and the relevance of the 'Third World Movement' today to our global economic system, with Dr Kojo Koram, author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. "Decolonisation, from the 1950s and 1...
Education rights and tax justice
The Taxcast - October 13, 2022 20:34 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode: Nelson Mandela famously said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Yet millions of children in the world still don’t even get to walk through the school door. This month on the Taxcast host Naomi Fowler looks at education and tax justice...
Tax and Racial Justice
The Taxcast - September 22, 2022 17:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode, Taxcast host and producer Naomi Fowler explores tax as a tool for racial justice and the launch of a new report by Decolonising Economics. "There's a real opportunity for mobilising towards transformative policies that'll work not just for racialised communities in the UK but ...
Crooked Crook Ltd: company registration scandals
The Taxcast - July 28, 2022 15:48 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode Taxcast host Naomi Fowler investigates the phenomenon of pop-up sweet shops on Oxford Street and the missing millions in taxes owed. The trail leads to the disgrace that is the UK's company registration process, making the UK Crime Central for any crook who comes along. It's not ...
Amazon's tax challenge
The Taxcast - June 30, 2022 17:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnnual shareholder’s meetings used to be pretty staid and boring affairs. But, as inequality has boomed along with corporate profits, AGMs are becoming sites of protest. In this episode Naomi Fowler speaks to Katie Hepworth of PIRC and Jason Ward of CICTAR about the recent challenge to Amazon on...
Financial Secrecy Index 2022
The Taxcast - May 18, 2022 18:43 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhich nations are the world's biggest financial secrecy offenders? And what does it tell us about the world, about politics and about democracy? How high does your country rank in facilitating global corruption? In this episode Taxcast host Naomi Fowler explores the shocking results of the Tax...
NonDoms unmasked
The Taxcast - April 28, 2022 13:52 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOn the Taxcast we ask - do politicians believe in the societies they serve or not? Are they really a part of them, or do they live in a parallel world with different rules to ordinary people? The so-called 'NonDom' scandal goes all the way to Downing Street, the heart of the British government a...
Butler Britain
The Taxcast - March 22, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode of the Taxcast, Naomi Fowler speaks with journalist and anti-corruption campaigner Oliver Bullough about his new book ‘Butler to the World: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals.’ "You cannot have unquestioning acceptance of the wealthy...
Stolen Dreams
The Taxcast - February 21, 2022 20:08 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode we bring you the story of a pensioner robbed of his dream retirement and his fight for justice in multiple jurisidctions. Tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions don't just hurt us because they're places of impunity for the rich and for criminals. Quite ordinary people can get caugh...
2022: Hopes and Fears
The Taxcast - January 26, 2022 16:56 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the first Taxcast for 2022, Naomi Fowler talks with tax justice and anti-corruption campaigners and experts in Europe, Africa, the US and Latin America. What are our hopes and fears for 2022? And what should we be looking out for? The transcript of the show is available here: https://taxju...
Jersey's Pandora's Boxes
The Taxcast - December 16, 2021 18:50 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn edition 117 we take you to the tax haven of Jersey off the coast of France and the intruiging story of the discovery of 333 boxes of incriminating evidence of fraud. Those boxes have revealed some ugly truths about this small island tax haven that affect us all. The transcript is available...
Tax Haven Ireland
The Taxcast - November 25, 2021 20:34 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode: Ireland only has 0.1% of the world’s population, but they became one of the biggest tax havens on the planet. What’s that meant for Irish people, and their road ahead? Naomi Fowler speaks with authors of a new book Tax Haven Ireland. There's a special deal for Taxcast listener...
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