Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast: who are the world’s worst financial secrecy offenders?

In the November 2015 Taxcast: Why is the City of London losing so much business to New York, Hong Kong and Singapore? (Our conclusions are quite different from those of a British Bankers Association report on the subject.) Plus: the crazy UK-China nuclear power station deal: a sweetener for closer ties between the two nation’s financial sectors? One year after #LuxLeaks exposed some of the secret tax deals being done between government tax authorities and multinational corporations we ask how many more ‘illegal state aid’ deals might have been made? Plus we have a special focus on the results of the latest Financial Secrecy Index 2015 released this month: we look at the top ten worst offenders and ask what can be done about them. @TheTaxcast is produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network @TaxJusticeNet

‘If the EU doesn’t want the US to become the mega tax haven of the 21st century it should start taking serious action to bring the US back to the negotiating table’

~ Markus Meinzer, Tax Justice Network @markusmeinzer Link to his new book Tax Haven Germany (in German)

“It’s easier to incorporate a shell company in the US than it is to get a driver’s licence or even a library card in many states”

~ Clark Gascoigne, FACT Coalition

‘I can only imagine what is driving it [the UK-China nuclear deal] is this determination to put the City of London’s interests ahead of all of the UK’s interests, including security interests.’

~ John Christensen, Tax Justice Network

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