Welcome to the twenty-fifth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and 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’d like to broadcast it or websites who’d like to post it. You can also join the programme on Facebook and on Twitter.
Taxes Simply #25 – Oxfam’s shocking data on increasing inequality and wealth concentration
Welcome to this latest edition of Taxes Simply. We begin with an interview with Nabil Abdo, the Regional Policy Adviser for Oxfam in the Middle East, on that organisation’s recent report, which contains new shocking figures on the increasing disparity in wealth between the world’s rich and the rest of humanity.
In the second part of the programme, we present a summary of the most important tax and economic news in January 2020, including:
- new leaks from Luanda, Angola
- confidence in capitalism collapses globally
- the arrest by the administration of the head of the Egyptian Tax Authority, charging him with bribery
- Jeff Bezos earns $15 million a second
- Jordan signs a new agreement with the IMF
الجباية ببساطة ٢٥# – بيانات أوكسفام الصادمة حول تزايد اللامساواة وتركز الثروة
أهلا بكم في في العدد الخامس والعشرين من الجباية ببساطة. نبدأ العدد بحوار مع نبيل عبدو، مستشار السياسات الإقليمية لمنظمة أوكسفام في الشرق الأوسط، بخصوص التقرير الصادر مؤخرًا عن المنظمة والذي يحتوي على أرقام صادمة جديدة عن التفاوت الرهيب والمتزايد في الثروة بين أغنياء العالم وباقي البشرية. في الجزء الثاني من البرنامج نقدم ملخص لأهم أخبار الضرائب والاقتصاد في شهر يناير/كانون الثاني، ويحتوي ملخصنا للأخبار على: ١) تسريبات جديدة من لواندا، أنجولا؛ ٢) الثقة تنهار في النظام الرأسمالي عالميًا؛ ٣) الرقابة الإدارية تضبط رئيس مصلحة الضرائب المصرية متلبسًا بتلقي رشوة؛ ٤) جيف بيزوس يربح ١٥ مليون دولار في الثانية؛ ٥) الأردن توقع اتفاقًا جديدًا مع صندوق النقد.
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