Daily: TAX EVASION ISLAND – How Britain became the tax dodgers’ favourite place

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🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tax havens aren’t all desert islands with palm trees. One of the worst offenders is rainy Britain. So are we wrong focus on offshore tax chicanery? And what can we do about it at home as well as away? Chair of the Tax Justice Network Alex Cobham tells Arthur Snell about how tax injustice goes beyond beaches and palm trees – and the implications for businesses in post-Brexit Britain. www.taxjustice.uk www.taxwatchuk.org https://fairtaxmark.net/ • “When it comes to tax havenry, Britain is the biggest actor out there.” • “We think we know what tax haven means… but it’s actually quite slippery.” • “You can avoid tax on a sunny beach with a palm tree, but you can also do it in London and Amsterdam.” • “The UK and its network is the biggest single actor in tax avoidance.” • “Every single second, one nurse’s salary is lost to tax havens – mostly to multinational companies.” Presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.5	hard to know what that means, but one definition might be those strange little bits of
1:21.8	empire that still are under the control of the British government,
1:25.7	places like the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar.
1:29.7	And of course, those places these days are associated with offshore finance and interesting types of tax
1:37.3	management. It is often said that Britain remains one of the world's leaders in tax injustice.
1:44.8	To help us understand more about that,
1:46.8	I'm delighted to have Alex Cobham with us
1:48.9	of the Tax Justice Network.
1:50.9	Alex, welcome to the bunker.
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