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The Bunker

Number crunching: How the rich dodge tax

The Bunker

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Next to births and deaths, taxes are one of life's only certainties. But with a tax system made up of a bewildering mish-mash of rates and loopholes, who are the winners and losers? And how can the system be hacked? Siân Pattenden is joined by the top-secret Rebel Accountant, author of Taxtopia, to explore how the tax system is scamming us all. “The poorest in society pay the most amount of tax – the whole system is rigged.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Siân Pattenden. Producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Group editor Andrew Harrison. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Book link: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/the-rebel-accountant/taxtopia/9781800960886/ Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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I loved going to college.

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1:00.0

Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Scharn Pattenden.

1:07.0

Now there are two certainties in life, death and taxes and three buses arriving at once and Michael McIntyre, but why do we have tax and why was it invented?

1:17.8

The rebel accountant has just published Tax Topia, a book detailing the global tax system which encourages dubious practice which favors the rich, apparently.

1:27.8

Cash from Chaos, said Malcolm McLaren once.

1:30.2

This is cash from loans, offshore companies, the Dutch sandwich, government-backed schemes,

1:36.0

VAT wizardry, seismic loopholes in the law and much, much more.

1:40.0

The rebel accountant has written this book anonymously.

1:43.0

What we know is that he's a chartered tax advisor who has worked widely behind the scenes in London and Australia,

1:50.0

and we are hugely privileged to have him in the studio today.

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