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The Taxcast


Welcome to the Taxcast, the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast. Here you'll find news and unique analysis on tax justice, corruption and scandal you won't find anywhere else! Featuring former banking and tax haven insiders, economists and tax justice experts. It's presented and produced by Naomi Fowler with a regular appearance from the Tax Justice Network's John Christensen. Available on iTunes, Stitcher etc.

Apr 25, 2019

In this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey:

- we explore Jersey's poor showing in the OECD's Better Life Index and ask why Jersey's spending so much money on improving it's bad image instead of setting up public registers of beneficial ownership information

- we interview the tax haven of Jersey's former Chief Advisor to the government, one of Jersey's main architects of, and defenders of its offshore business model

- we hear about Jersey's dysfunctional political system from an elected representative of Jersey's only political party and its rising inequality levels

- we speak to the fire-starters of the global tax justice movement - it all started in Jersey...