Women, unpaid work and tax justice #40
How just are our tax systems towards women? One Texan husband did the sums on what his stay-at-home wife's unpaid work was really worth in monetary terms. Plus: one of the USA's biggest corporations (...
23 Apr 201531min
Democracy for sale: tax haven-friendly donors #39
Democracy for sale: how our politics are heavily reliant on tax haven-friendly donors. Also, we ask: Why is HSBC shutting down offshore accounts in Jersey? Are we in the final few years of the corpora...
21 Mars 201530min
What does a bank have to do to lose its licence?! #38
Just what does a bank have to do to lose its licence?! We look at the fall out from HSBCLeaks and ask how can we genuinely tackle criminality in global finance? Also: the latest research on crimes and...
22 Feb 201528min
The Offshore Game: football's own goal #37
How offshore is ruining the 'Beautiful Game' - the Taxcast scrutinises football's own goal. Also: how banks with criminal convictions are being allowed to continue to handle our money, how people may ...
23 Jan 201529min
'Mafia Capitale': corruption of democracy #36
In the December 2014 Taxcast: how mafia is corrupting democracy at the heart of Europe in Italy's capital city of Rome. Also, the #LuxLeaks whistleblower is arrested and makes his first public stateme...
16 Dec 201429min
Ukraine teaches the world about tackling corruption #35
In the November 2014 Taxcast: 'You can lie and you can steal from us but this time we'll know who you are': Ukraine becomes the first country in the world to introduce a public registry of the real ow...
24 Nov 201429min
How much is corporate welfare costing us? #34
How much is corporate welfare costing us? Across the US they're going to start publishing the subsidies and tax breaks. We take a look at the latest research in the UK. Also: Ireland announces it'll a...
22 Okt 201426min
'Unpatriotic corporate deserters' #33
In the September 2014 Taxcast: 'unpatriotic corporate deserters'? We ask why so many US companies are relocating. Also, the less reported side of the Scottish vote on independence, the OECD's latest '...
23 Sep 201429min
