The High Cost of our Finance Sectors
We look at the high price we're paying for our finance sectors – we look at staggering statistics showing how the US finance sector is a net drag on their economy. Also, as the British government init...
23 Mar 201730min
Financial transaction taxes
In the February 2017 Taxcast: how financial transaction taxes can protect us from finance sectors dragging our economies down. Plus: the Swiss referendum - taxpayers have refused to pick up the tab fo...
23 Feb 201733min
Public contracts: tax dodger free zones
In the January 2017 Taxcast 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 mon...
19 Jan 201731min
Trusts and ownership avoidance
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 al...
20 Des 201631min
Tax Inspectors Without Borders
We look at Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a practical project that's changing lives and aiming to level the global playground of tax minimising multinational companies. Plus: what does new US Presid...
17 Nov 201629min
The offshorisation of Iceland
We look at the offshorisation of Iceland's economy, its collapse and recovery. Also, Brazil adds Ireland to its tax haven black list and Panama threatens anyone who dares call it a tax haven with a ne...
20 Okt 201631min
The laundromat and the conman
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 que...
23 Sep 201630min
Breaking up the Big 4 accountancy firms
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 th...
19 Aug 201629min
