Naomi Fowler
New Internationalist
United Kingdom
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The making of tax haven Mauritius
Naomi Fowler of Taxcast investigates the making of a tax haven that's been hurting Indians and Africans for years. → Read More
Which countries are aiding financial secrecy?
Financial shadiness can have a devastating impact on democracy and human rights. But where are the worst offenders? This episode of the Taxcast explores the results of the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index 2022. → Read More
Ukraine, Russia: the finance curse and the resource curse go hand in hand with financial secrecy
Ukraine, Russia: the finance curse and the resource curse goes hand in hand with financial secrecy → Read More
How secrecy kills: the Beirut explosion in the Tax Justice Network podcast, November 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: * We look at the terrible Beirut explosion and how the story of tracing those responsible tells us everything that’s wrong with our world. * Plus, we discuss what President-elect Biden’s win could mean for tax and economic policies: one thing with big potential could be tackling monopoly corporate power which has… → Read More
A reparational justice journey: the Tax Justice Network podcast, October 2020
This month we go on a reparational justice journey and speak to the Council for World Mission about their Legacies of Slavery project. Plus: austerity's out, public investment is now in?! We discuss the IMF's hypocritical turn around - now poorer countries need apologies and restitution... → Read More
VIDEO: Winning the Fight for Tax Justice – how do we make multinationals pay?
Yes, we can build an open and transparent tax system that works fairly for everyone. Do you know how multinationals shift their profits to dodge their taxes and how we can stop them? Our beautifully illustrated new videos tell you how, narrated in five different languages by our tax justice podcast teams. They explain how governments can put a stop to transfer pricing and profit shifting, end… → Read More
‘Competition’ is killing us: the Tax Justice Network podcast, September 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How a competition lawyer's eyes were opened to the dangers of letting companies get too big and form monopolies which act against our interests. We talk to Michelle Meagher about her book just out: Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It. → Read More
Systemic racism and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, July 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast we bring you part 2 on how tax justice can help address systemic racism in the US: → Read More
Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, June 2020
In this episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: We look at the United States and how tax justice can help address systemic racism. Plus: did you know Britain's slave owners compensation loan was only settled by the government in 2015 on behalf of taxpayers? → Read More
Seeking a tax justice podcast commentator and consultant in Arabic
The Tax Justice Network produces five monthly podcasts: the Taxcast in English, Justicia ImPositiva in Spanish, Impôts et Justice Sociale in French, É da sua conta in Portuguese, and our Arabic podcast Our monthly podcasts are aimed at ordinary citizens, campaigners and practitioners, filling the gap in regional media coverage and analysis of tax, redistribution, financial secrecy and the global… → Read More
The Reboot #2: how to pay for the pandemic (video)
Everyone knows the global economic system isn’t working in the interests of most of us. In our new video series we talk about how to fix it. From lockdown because of covid19 Naomi Fowler speaks to John Christensen and Nicholas Shaxson of the Tax Justice Network. In this second episode of the Reboot: the big question people are asking as many governments are busily 'printing money' to tackle the… → Read More
Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry
It's hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that British taxpayers finished paying off the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery. Abolition meant their profits from human misery were (gradually) to come to an end. Not a penny was paid to those who were enslaved and brutalised. → Read More
The Reboot: new Tax Justice Network video series
Everyone knows the global economic system isn’t working in the interests of most of us. In our new video series we’re going to talk about how to fix it. → Read More
Tax collection, a labour of love: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2020
In the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: we cover the story the mainstream media aren’t telling you – how governments around the world are undermining our tax collection services. We look at how the South Africa Revenue Service was established in very challenging times to become a world class institution. Yet also how quickly such achievements can be set back... Also, as all… → Read More
A “world fit for money laundering” must end in the post Covid-19 era
We're sharing here the details of explosive new research on "the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry." This new research was carried out by our senior adviser Dr Mary Alice Young, and by Dr Michael Woodiwiss, Organised Crime, Bristol Law School,… → Read More
Healthy economies: the Tax Justice Network podcast, April 2020
In the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: from the ashes of the coronavirus crisis how can we build a better economic and socially just system that works for all of us? The pandemic also exposes the pile-up of unaddressed crises which we must also fix. We discuss: * tax justice (which was always key) * bailout conditions for companies now seeking government assistance *… → Read More
My billionaire bosses funnelled money offshore for years. Now they want a bailout
We're sharing this personal story from an anonymous writer who was recently made redundant. The consequences of a world where we tolerated the excesses of so-called 'wealth creators' are becoming starkly clear as their lack of responsibility or loyalty to employees and to the society that has enriched them is hitting us hard. The wealth they extracted has flowed almost entirely one way - into… → Read More
Climate crisis, transition and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, March 2020
In our monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? As the world buckles up for a different crisis tackling the Coronavirus, we look at how tax justice is key to all economic reform in the public interest, and solving the climate crisis - any… → Read More
Malta, murder and the finance curse: a podcast recommendation
This four-part podcast special series is well worth a listen. It's called My Mother's Murder, and it's an investigation into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia with one of her sons Paul Caruana Galizia. Here's part of the description of the podcast series: → Read More
VIDEO: The “Race to the Bottom” and how it makes us all poorer
tax justice has become a top election battleground subject. Tax justice is, as we've always said, a vote winner, and it's continuing to climb up the political agenda. → Read More