Cafe Diplo, London: Monday November 5th – Offshore Tax Havens: how the wealthy loot the world with Richard Murphy

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I'm speaking tomorrow evening at an event organised by Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique,

This is a UK-based affiliate of the Les Amis Le Monde Diplomatique which supports the writings and tradition which has evolved over 50 years of publication of the Le Monde Diplomatique Newspaper. Our "Cafe Diplo" meetings at The Gallery at Farringdon, in the City of London on selected Monday evenings, are presented (in English) in the context of our global anti neo-conservative-liberal tradition, and give an opportunity for lively debate between speakers and audience.

They say of this event, at 6.30 tomorrow evening:

Tax havens are secrecy jurisdictions lying at the centre of the Global Economy. Half the world's trade passes through them, and they afford the opportunity to avoid tax, financial regulation, criminal law and democratic scrutiny. They hide trillions of dollars on behalf of banks, multinationals, wealthy individuals and criminals, leaving the rest of society to pay for the public services on which we all depend. Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant, economist and tax expert will discuss this web of corruption and concealment. He is a founder of the Tax Justice Network, director of Tax Research LLP and co-author of 'Tax Havens': How Globalisation Really Works (2009). His most recent bookThe Courageous State, was published in 2011.

More details here.


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