In Edition 86 of the February 2019 Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms):

• why hasn't the European Commission investigated any of the secret tax deals that were exposed by the LuxLeaks whistleblowers where tax authorities gave multi-national companies outrageously low tax rates?
• Plus ‘aid' for whom? We discuss the financialisation of aid
• And also: zero federal income taxes last year in the US for one of the world's biggest monopolists: Amazon

Featuring:

• Simon Bowers of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
• John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network
• Senator Mike Gianaris, New York Senate
• Produced and presented by Naomi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network

Simon Bowers of the ICIJ on why the EU Commission has so far failed to investigate the LuxLeaks cases almost five years later:

it's a burning question…the EU's Competition Commissioner Margarethe Vestager said yes, we're looking at these documents, we will examine it, we'll evaluate whether or not this leads to the opening of a case and we've not heard anything since…We all know how soft power works and there is clearly a conflict there.”