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Tax haven Jersey: inequality and dysfunction

Tax haven Jersey: inequality and dysfunction

FromThe Taxcast


Tax haven Jersey: inequality and dysfunction

FromThe Taxcast

ratings:
Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Apr 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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...
Released:
Apr 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Taxcast is a monthly podcast/radio show from the Tax Justice Network sizzling with the latest developments in the corrupt world of tax havens, financial secrecy and tax dodging. We explore these most challenging ethical and economic issues of our times, with transformational economic analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.