Tax Justice Network podcast – April 2015: scandal and analysis you won’t find anywhere else

How fair are our tax systems towards women? (They’re only about half the world’s population after all…) Plus the Tax Justice Network‘s April 2015 podcast looks at the announcement by GE, one of the US’s biggest corporations (and tax avoiders) that they’re repatriating billions from offshore and re-focusing on good old manufacturing again; and remember how the UK Prime Minister was ‘leading the world’ in transparency measures not so long ago? We discuss the letter that’s been made public that a former Cayman Islands lobbyist and Conservative peer wrote at the time to reassure the tax haven that it was an empty gesture to distract from the proposed Financial Transaction Tax.

“Tax should be a source of our well being, of our development, of our future…but you have to work on these systems, on owning the systems and changing them and making them work for our present improvement of our lives and the future that we want.’

Mae Buenaventura, Jubilee South in the Philippines

Featuring: Filmaker Michael Winterbottom of The Emperor’s News Clothes, John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, Feminist economist Professor Susan Himmelweit of the Women’s Budget Group, Mae Buenaventura of Jubilee South in the Philippines, Steven Nelms (Ezra’s dad). The Taxcast is produced for the Tax Justice Network by @Naomi_Fowler
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