Harold Crooks

Harold Crooks

Published:

18 May 2017

Without the TJN it is impossible for me to imagine how activists and an ever growing public would ever have understood – and been outraged by – the threat the offshoring of the world’s wealth represents to the 20th century’s major social innovations: the middle class and the social welfare state. And on a personal note, it was not until I came into contact with TJN that I knew how to go about exposing the “fiscal termite” eating away at democracy.

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George Turner

George Turner was a writer and researcher with the Tax Justice Network until June 2018. He worked on a number of TJN projects including a review of the UK’s Tax Department HMRC, jointly published with the union PCS, and he was lead author on the Offshore Game, a study into the use of offshore finance by UK football clubs. George is also a non-executive director of Tax Justice UK and of Finance Uncovered, a TJN project that he helped set up. George was formerly Head of Office for the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK.

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