Nick Shaxson ■ The Tax Justice Network Podcast, March 2015

The Tax Justice Network Podcast, March 2015

Nick Shaxson

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22 March 2015

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The Tax Justice Network Podcast, March 2015

In the March 2015 Taxcast: Democracy for sale – how our politics rely heavily 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 corporate income tax? Is Australia’s exempting of big companies from new transparency rules a joke? Plus more scandal and analysis that you won’t find anywhere else.

‘We were not sent here to run this country for a handful of wealthy individuals and powerful corporations, we were sent here to make this country work for all our people.”
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren addressing Congress

Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, Rebecca Wilkins of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, Nick Mathiason and Melanie Newman of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, Donnachadh McCarthy, author of Prostitute State: How Britain’s Democracy Has Been Bought, Labour MP and UK opposition leader Ed Miliband, British Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Produced by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network.

All previous Taxcasts can be found here, here and here.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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