Tax haven USA on the Tax Justice Network February Podcast

On the Tax Justice Network podcast: “Pay a small fee, fill out a simple form, no id check required and hide m/billions of $$$” We shine a spotlight on the second easiest country in the world after Kenya to set up an anonymous shell company – tax haven USA and the New York lawyers secretly filmed by Global Witness advising a fake corrupt African government Minister. Also: we discuss Google’s tiny tax payment in the UK, how politicians are interfering with the independence of our tax authorities, and the rise of the unnoticed tax haven of Taiwan. Plus more scandal and analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Featuring: Eryn Schornick of Global Witness, Clark Gascoigne of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, John Christensen and Markus Meinzer of the Tax Justice Network, and the voices of some (now shamefaced) New York lawyers. @TheTaxcast is produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network.

“If I were corrupt foreign official I’d be looking to the United States…The rest of the world is leaping ahead of the United States in tax transparency stuff and the United States is continuing to go it alone.”

Clark Gascoigne, Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition

The United States is “so hostile to moving anywhere nearer, you know, full-fledged membership of international community and it’s geared towards US first, US interest alone and above everyone else’s.”
Markus Meinzer, Tax Justice Network

“I regret to say this, I really do, we cannot trust the tax authorities any longer to act in the public interest, it is quite clear that as a result of of political lobbying and state capture that the politicians in many countries…can no longer be trusted to not interfere constantly with the supposedly independent tax authorities”

John Christensen, Tax Justice Network

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