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In this month’s Taxcast, the Tax Justice Network monthly podcast: we look at tax justice and public procurement – the efforts to hit tax dodging companies where it really hurts on a local level – trying to stop them bidding for public money for public contracts. Also: how massive amounts of money are flowing into Tax Haven USA to circumvent the flawed Common Reporting Standard – South Dakota is apparently raking in tax evading capital the slippery world of ‘residence planning’ and the ‘synthetic residency’ dodge we discuss the UK’s Criminal Finances Bill likely to be passed this year, which includes proposals for ‘Unexplained Wealth Orders’ and holding tax evading enablers to account. An amendment to the bill could force UK satellite tax havens, the overseas territories to create public registers of the real owners of companies, something they’ve so far refused to do. and we consider the British threat to the EU: ‘if you give us a bad Brexit deal, we’ll push regulation-lite, tax haven UK even further in a race to the bottom and shoot ourselves in the foot.’ Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, Paul Monaghan, co-founding Director of the Fair Tax Mark and Miguel Alba, Policy researcher in private sector and tax policies in Oxfam Intermón, Spain Zonas LIbres de Paraisos Fiscales initiative. Produced and presented by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Jan_17.mp3 Download the mp3 to listen offline anytime on your computer, mobile/cell phone or handheld device by right clicking here and selecting ‘save link as’ It’s also available on iTunes ‘I would like to see a world where…some of the…providers, if it was possible, such as Microsoft and Apple [were] potentially not being able to operate on these public service contracts and the quid pro quo would be those businesses that were trading ethically… could start to pick up the contracts that were being vacated by the tax avoiders.’ Paul Monaghan, co-founding Director of the Fair Tax Mark  ‘If we can make a European or a global movement fostering tax responsibility or social responsibility in general from public procurement policies I think that is a really interesting transformative tool for getting changes.’ Miguel Alba, Policy researcher in private sector and tax policies in Oxfam Intermón, Spain Zonas Libres de Paraisos Fiscales initiative ‘this race to the bottom on tax, social protections and environmental protections…[is] an astonishing exercise in self-harm by the British…the vast majority of people in Britain will lose out as their public services are cut further, as their living standards decline and as their environmental standards are degraded. So at the end of the day, engaging in a race to the bottom is a losing strategy, it’s a sign of weakness on the part of the British government because after all, who wants to win a race to the bottom? There is no limit to the amount of subsidy big companies will chase if they’re given the opportunity by weak politicians.’ John Christensen, Tax Justice Network Want more Taxcasts? The full playlist is here. Want to subscribe? Subscribe via email by contacting the Taxcast producer on naomi [at] taxjustice.net OR subscribe to the Taxcast RSS feed here OR subscribe to our youtube channel, Tax Justice TV OR find us on iTunes  

In the December 2016 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast, the Taxcast: In trusts we trust? We look at the new game in town: beneficial ownership avoidance, the booming industry in alternative escape vehicles from public registers and why we must shine the spotlight on all of them. Plus: we discuss two big stories we think will define 2017: the race to the bottom between nations on tax aka a transfer of wealth to the corporate community, and how the world’s biggest havens are increasingly having to account for the devastating effect their tax and/or financial secrecy policies are having on human rights around the world… Featuring: Lawyer Paul Beckett of cyber-intelligence agency Synceritas, journalist and financial sleuth Richard Smith of Naked Capitalism, and John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. Produced and presented for the Tax Justice Network by Naomi Fowler. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Dec_16.mp3  “What has happened worldwide is a new phenomenon which I have called beneficial ownership avoidance…the danger is that if one of these structures is established by someone who is less than scrupulous the client going forward can say when asked, do you have an interest under a trust anywhere? The answer is no. Do you own this particular asset? No.” ~Paul Beckett “There’s been a boom in New Zealand trusts and the suspicion has to be that there’s plenty more oligarchs and the like using these structures to obfuscate ownership.” ~Richard Smith “The race to bottom between nations on tax is a game for losers…this does nothing at all to improve productivity or growth or the quality of economics anywhere, it quite simply is a transfer of wealth to the corporate community” ~John Christensen Want more Taxcasts? The full playlist is here. Want to subscribe? Subscribe via email by contacting the Taxcast producer on naomi [at] taxjustice.net OR subscribe to the Taxcast RSS feed here OR subscribe to our youtube channel, Tax Justice TV OR find us on iTunes

Welcome to the Tax Justice Network November 2016 Podcast! In this month’s Taxcast: – Tax Inspectors Without Borders – we look at a practical project that’s changing lives and aiming to level the global playground of tax-minimising multinational companies. – Plus: what does new US President Trump mean for tax justice? – And, in Trusts we trust? The French Constitutional Court upholds a challenge to France’s trailblazing public register of Trusts: what does it mean for progress on financial transparency? Featuring: James Karanja of Tax Inspectors Without Borders, US economist Joseph Stiglitz, Savior Mwbamba of Action Aid, Dr Attiya Waris of Nairobi University and John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. Produced and presented for the Tax Justice Network by Naomi Fowler. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Nov_16.mp3 ‘We would like to see a situation where we have helped developing countries to build and recover billions of tax revenue from multinationals that have woven circles around these governments,to build capacity and skills of those tax administrations to the point where the multinationals know that we have a level playing field whether you operate in Britain, whether you operate in Chad or in Bolivia, we want to see them practice in the same manner and pay the fair share of tax wherever they are operating from.’ James Karanja, Head of the Tax Inspectors Without Borders Secretariat You can download this podcast directly onto your mobile device. phone or tablet (‘right click and save link as’) http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Nov_16.mp3 The Taxcast is also available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/taxcast-by-tax-justice-network/id620020246 To subscribe to the Taxcast please email naomi [at] taxjustice.net or grab the show’s RSS feed here: http://taxcast.libsyn.com/rss or subscribe to our youtube channel Tax Justice TV – the Taxcast playlist is here. Tax Justice Network daily blog: www.taxjustice.net You can listen to previous Taxcasts here and here.

In the October 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: we look at the offshorisation of Iceland’s economy, its collapse and recovery. What are the lessons? Also, Brazil adds Ireland to its tax haven black list and Panama threatens anyone who dares call it a tax haven with a new law…plus more scandal and unique analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Produced by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network and featuring Sigrun Davidsdottir, journalist, blogger and podcaster, journalist Ingólfur Sigfússon and John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Oct_16.mp3 You can download this directly onto your mobile device. phone or tablet (‘right click and save link as’ here) “Iceland didn’t do what Europe has been doing, lingering in a limbo and not really tackling the big issues, we can see that every so often the European banking sector is struggling now with Italian banks, with Deutsche bank and so on, and this is very much down to the fact the painful things have been avoided and I often say that Iceland shows that a quick stab is better than a lingering pain. Iceland took the quick stab, it was extremely painful at the time but at least things have and are being slowly cleared out and that makes a huge difference compared to the so many European countries where the lingering pain is still there.” Sigrun Davidsdottir, journalist, blogger and podcaster. Read her Icelog “Panama is not just a major secrecy jurisdiction, it is a politically delinquent secrecy jurisdiction…they are moving away from a democratic country where civil society can interact freely…to an increasingly autocratic model and Panama now deserves to have strong international sanctions imposed upon it to make sure it doesn’t proceed down this highly autocratic highly secretive, highly non-cooperative model because the only people who’ll benefit from that are the criminals” John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network The Taxcast is also available on iTunes Never miss an episode. Grab the show’s RSS feed here Subscribe to our youtube channel or email naomi [at] taxjustice.net

In the September Tax Justice Network podcast, the Taxcast: How a conman can devastate the lives of thousands of ordinary people, aided and abetted by the offshore industry – with banks, law firms and accountants all happy to look the other way and not ask questions. Plus, we discuss: the latest leak from the Bahamas, #BahamasLeaks; and Apple’s 13 billion euro underpaid tax bill: a defining moment in the battle between the low/no-tax world big corporations would like to see and democratic, accountable governance in the public interest. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Sept_16.mp3 You can download directly onto your mobile device. phone or tablet here (‘right click and save link as.’) Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network and Alek Boyd, anti-corruption blogger, journalist and asset recovery specialist. Produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. Never miss an episode. Hook up to our RSS feed here. Or subscribe via email by contacting the Taxcast producer Naomi Fowler on naomi [at] taxjustice.net The Taxcast is available on iTunes. Join us on facebook, and on youtube. Home websites: www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast www.taxjustice.net/taxcast Missed last month’s episode? We ask if the big four accountancy firms are really the ‘big one’. Catch up here

In the August 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: The Big Four accountancy firms: Are they in fact more like the Big One? And should they be broken up? Also: - the Duke of Westminster’s 9 billion tax free inheritance and how his family history forms the legal basis for the justification of tax avoidance around the world; - why are the world’s biggest banks now officially endorsing transparency measures? - and…so much for Panama cleaning up its act post-Panama Papers scandal: we discuss the demise of Panama’s not-so-transparent Transparency Commission. “The Big Four…just seem to be getting away with being the guardians of commerce when they are basically a bunch of tax cheating facilitators…they have infiltrated governments at every level all around the world” Michael West  “What they’re doing is really taking over the operation of companies by stealth…4 organisations dominating 98% of global commerce as auditors is well past its used-by date, I don’t think any industry has come even close to this.” George Rozvany http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Aug_16.mp3 Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, tax ethicist George Rozvany (with 32 years of experience at senior levels of Big 4 Accounting Firms and major corporations) and award winning economics and finance journalist Michael West. Produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. Never miss an episode. Hook up to our RSS feed here. Or subscribe via email by contacting the Taxcast producer Naomi Fowler on naomi [at] taxjustice.net The Taxcast is available on iTunes. Join us on facebook Join us on youtube Home websites: www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast www.taxjustice.net/taxcast  

In the July 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: ‘Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data? I’m happy to share.‘ We talk to the two journalists who got the Panama Papers scoop, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier who’ve written a book about their experience. Plus: what does Brexit mean for tax justice? We discuss the F4 (unholy) alliance between Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, and the accelerated corporate tax race to the bottom. ‘Unfortunately there is the world people like you and me are living in and there is a second world, a parallel world, the offshore world where people with enough money will always find possibilities to hide their money…there are people out there choosing which law they want to stick to and that is a problem for democracy.’ Frederik Obermaier ‘I am very clear about what would happen if you take away the secrecy, if you take away the anonymity. I am completely sure that the whole system would crash because why would they go to the British Virgin Islands for a company when you can see who owns it? You know, it’s not rocket science.’ Bastian Obermayer Post-Brexit: ‘I think that Britain’s likely development strategy will be to actually deepen its tax haven role sitting offshore Europe.’ John Christensen http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_July_16.mp3 Featuring: The Tax Justice Network’s John Christensen, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of the Sudduetsche Zeitung newspaper and authors of the new book: The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money. Produced and presented by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. Also available on iTunes. You can subscribe to our youtube channel or email Naomi [at] taxjustice.net to be added to the subscriber email list, or subscribe to the Taxcast on our rss feed. You can also follow The Taxcast and the Tax Justice Network on twitter. Join us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/TaxJusticeNetwork Home websites: www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast www.taxjustice.net/taxcast

In the June 2016 Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network: How different could the lives of those in poverty have been without secrecy jurisdictions? We give you the very latest estimates on the missing trillions offshored from the world’s developing regions. Also: Brexit and the special interests behind it: “Nakedly, brazenly, they’re pushing the City of London’s deregulated, criminal approach to finance”. Plus, the Panama Papers shed some light on secretive, pro-tax haven US lobbying group the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s funders. “the revelations from the Panama Papers have been sensational but an international investigation with some kind of subpoena power would I think be 10 times as important.” James Henry http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_June_16.mp3 Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, and Columbia University Professor, Economist, lawyer and Tax Justice Network senior advisor James Henry. Produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. You can subscribe to our youtube channel or email Naomi [at] taxjustice.net to be added to the subscriber email list, or subscribe to the Taxcast on our rss feed. You can also follow The Taxcast and the Tax Justice Network on twitter. Download to listen offline here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_June_16.mp3 Join us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/TaxJusticeNetwork Home websites: www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast www.taxjustice.net/taxcast

What is corruption? Well, that’s a political question, and the answer depends on who you ask. In this podcast we discuss the anti-corruption summit in the City of London, the world’s capital of sleaze and ask if the sun ever set on the colonial era and the idea that corruption is a poor country issue. We explore extortive corruption versus collusive corruption and look at a new Poll which indicates for the first time the vast gulf between what the British people consider corrupt, and what has become a ‘normal’ way of doing business and politics. The overlap between the public and private spheres raises serious questions about democracy – and the nature of global fraud. Produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. Featuring: Nicholas Shaxson of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and The Men Who Stole the World, Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero of the Crime and Conflict Research Centre at Middlesex University, Will McMahon of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Professor David Whyte of Liverpool University and editor of the book ‘How Corrupt is Britain?‘, British Prime Minster David Cameron, President Buhari of Nigeria. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_May_16.mp3 You can read more on the Corruption Poll results in the Tax Justice Network’s Tax Justice Focus: The Corruption Issue here. You can also read about our Financial Secrecy Index here. You can subscribe to our youtube channel Tax Justice TV and never miss a Taxcast, or email naomi [at] taxjustice.net to ask to be added to the subscriber list OR use iTunes, OR our RSS feed.

In the April 2016 Taxcast: we discuss the biggest offshore leak in history, the #PanamaPapers: could it provide an opportunity for nations to expand their secrecy market share? Once again, all eyes are on Trusts… Also, as the #LuxLeaks whistleblower Antoine Deltour’s trial begins in Luxembourg, we ask why protections for whistleblowers are being eroded and what it says about the state of our democracy. Presented and produced for the Tax Justice Network by Naomi Fowler. Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, Member of the European Parliament Fabio De Masi, Antonio Gambini of CNCD 11.11.11, co-founder of Luxembourg’s home grown tax justice collective Collectif Tax Justice Lëtzebuerg Luc Dockendorf and a brief appearance by EU Commission President and former PM of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_April_16.mp3 ‘it does appear that the British Prime Minister is pushing to protect and enlarge the British Trust industry, at the expense of traditional banking secrecy arrangements and for that reason we must ensure that there is absolutely no way that Trusts can be used as a way of wriggling out of international information exchange processes.’ John Christensen, Tax Justice Network ‘such very useful leaks [like Panama Papers and Lux Leaks] and the disclosure of so much interesting data will be much more difficult in the future.’ Antonio Gambini, CNCD 11.11.11 ‘in many ways Luxembourg is a diverse, affluent, peaceful, happy society but then of course there is always those nagging questions where is the wealth really coming from and is it a sustainable business model and the wealth that we get, is it a zero sum or negative sum gain for people around the world?’ Luc Dockendorf, Collectif Tax Justice Lëtzebuerg You can read the Tax Justice Network daily blogs here, and you can subscribe to our youtube channel Tax Justice TV

In the Tax Justice Network March 2016 podcast: Is the US president really serious about tackling corruption in the finance sector? Are the presidential candidates? Now they can prove it. Bank Whistleblowers United tell us how they can restore the rule of law to Wall Street and avoid the next financial crisis in 60 days without any new legislation. Plus: why a wave of tax amnesties is likely to sweep across the world (how does 1% tax and immunity from prosecution sound?) and what the very first transparency data on banks exposes about how they do business. Produced and presented by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Mar_16.mp3 “it doesn’t matter what the rules are if you put people in charge who are committed to not enforcing the rules…not a single banking leader of the three fraud epidemics that drove the US financial crisis and much of the global financial crisis has been prosecuted for leading those fraud schemes, not one.” William Black, Bank Whistleblowers United (serial whistleblower, former senior US regulator, white collar criminologist and Associate Professor of Law and Economics) Follow him on Twitter Democracy Spring A mass nonviolent action on a historic scale to save US democracy in April 2016, Washington DC. Follow them on Twitter The Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast the Taxcast is available here, here and on iTunes You can subscribe to the Taxcast via our youtube channel or by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice. net and our RSS feed is here

In the November 2015 Taxcast: Why is the City of London losing so much business to New York, Hong Kong and Singapore? (Our conclusions are quite different from those of a British Bankers Association report on the subject.) Plus: the crazy UK-China nuclear power station deal: a sweetener for closer ties between the two nation’s financial sectors? One year after #LuxLeaks exposed some of the secret tax deals being done between government tax authorities and multinational corporations we ask how many more ‘illegal state aid’ deals might have been made? Plus we have a special focus on the results of the latest Financial Secrecy Index 2015 released this month: we look at the top ten worst offenders and ask what can be done about them. @TheTaxcast is produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network @TaxJusticeNet http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Nov_15.mp3 ‘If the EU doesn’t want the US to become the mega tax haven of the 21st century it should start taking serious action to bring the US back to the negotiating table’ ~ Markus Meinzer, Tax Justice Network @markusmeinzer Link to his new book Tax Haven Germany (in German) “It’s easier to incorporate a shell company in the US than it is to get a driver’s licence or even a library card in many states” ~ Clark Gascoigne, FACT Coalition ‘I can only imagine what is driving it [the UK-China nuclear deal] is this determination to put the City of London’s interests ahead of all of the UK’s interests, including security interests.’ ~ John Christensen, Tax Justice Network To listen to previous and future monthly Taxcasts go to the Tax Justice TV youtube channel or to download and listen any time on the go you’ll find the direct download urls here To read the Tax Justice Network daily blogs go to www.taxjustice.net

In the September 2015 Tax Justice Network podcast: The next financial crisis? We look at offshore and the trillion dollar derivatives market. Plus: we discuss how Mexico’s trying to force multinational companies to pay more tax, how recent market madness originating in China shows why we need a Financial Transactions Tax more than ever, and why the recent election by a landslide of UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is a game-changer. “We’ve now entered what I think of as a third wave of global financial shocks” John Christensen, Tax Justice Network http://traffic.libsyn.com/taxcast/Taxcast_Sept_15.mp3 “We’re talking about 100s of trillions of dollars-worth of notional contracts outstanding which potentially pose very grave risks to ultimate financial stability” Nick Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, US Senator Sherrod Brown, Lisa Donner of Americans for Financial Reform and author of Treasure Islands Nicholas Shaxson. Produced and presented for @TaxJusticeNet by @Naomi_Fowler. The Tax Justice Network writes a daily blog and their podcast @TheTaxcast is out once a month. You can subscribe to the Tax Justice Network youtube channel here where the podcast is also available.

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