May 22, 2020
This month, 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 a world class institution. Yet also how quickly such achievements...
Apr 23, 2020
This month: from the ashes of this coronavirus crisis how can we build a better economic and socially just system that works for all of us? The pandemic also exposes the pile-up of unaddressed crises which we must also fix. We discuss tax justice (which was always key), bailout conditions for companies now seeking...
Mar 19, 2020
How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? As the world buckles up for a different crisis tackling the Coronavirus, we look at how tax justice is key to all economic reform in the public interest,...
Feb 20, 2020
In this special extended Taxcast, Naomi Fowler takes you on a whistle-stop guided tour on an express train around the world, looking at the worst offenders selling secrecy services. What can nations can do to protect themselves and their populations from the corruption that results from financial and legal...
Jan 23, 2020
The Taxcast kicks off the new decade with:
- the French strikes - tax justice and pensions vs financialisation
- the EU countries who've missed the deadline on publishing registers of real corporate owners
- the effect of Brexit on poorer (plundered) countries
- And the IMF's stark warnings about the finance curse and another...