
Here’s the fourth edition of our new monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and now regular contributor Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, also an investigative journalist. The programme is available for listeners to download and it’s also available for free to any radio stations who would like to broadcast it. You can also join the programme on Facebook and on Twitter.
The fourth edition of our Arabic programme provides a round-up of tax justice events, plus
- Islamic finance and tax evasion via Islamic banks with Egyptian journalist Hisham Allam.
- The European Union has extended the freezing of the Mubarak assets for one more year. We speak with Egyptian journalist Osama Diab of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
- And also, how come one of the largest auditing firms in the world didn’t pick up the huge problems around violations of privacy around user data when it did a privacy audit of Facebook?
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