In the May 2017 Tax Justice Network Taxcast: We talk to film director Michael Oswald about his new film The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire. Listen for details on how you can see the film.
Also, we discuss booming Sweden's ‘reverse-Trumpism': its economy grew almost twice as fast as the US last year — and it wasn't achieved through cutting taxes. Plus: the Russian Parliament is considering sweeteners that would accelerate Crimea's progress along the tax haven and secrecy jurisdiction route.
Featuring: film director Michael Oswald, John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, author of Treaure Islands: Tax Havens and The Men Who Stole the World, Nicholas Shaxson, Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network, Member of the European Parliament Eva Joly. Produce and presented by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network.
“This is a story that really needs to be told and that needs to enter the public consciousness. The main danger in an overly dominant finance sector as it is in the UK, if we give it too much power what you end up with is a kind of dictatorship of finance.”
Michael Oswald, director of The Spider' Web: Britain's Second Empire
‘To all intents and purposes trusts are invisible arrangements. We're not talking about a few million. We're talking about trillions of capital which apparently belongs to nobody, for tax purposes and for any other purposes.”
John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
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Thank you for this.
How come you’re not in the film Richard? As the foremost expert on this stuff, I’d had thought you would be certain to make it to the silver screen? Especially as it looks like John C was paying for it!
I was asked
And when they were filming I was just too busy