{"id":31025,"date":"2015-10-25T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31025"},"modified":"2015-10-25T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:11:30","slug":"the-october-taxcast-from-the-tax-justice-network-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/25\/the-october-taxcast-from-the-tax-justice-network-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The October TaxCast from the Tax Justice Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/2015\/10\/23\/the-tax-justice-network-podcast-october-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">October 2015 Tax Justice Network Podcast<\/a>\u00a0we look at the 'remittance cartel' and their 'taxing of the poor' with monopoly prices in a juicy $450-500 billion market.<\/p>\n<p>Also: 'comfort letters' and the game changing European Commission ruling that the tax agreements between Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Fiat and Starbucks constitute illegal state aid.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we analyse the rich country club of the OECD's BEPS proposals for reform of the global corporate tax system: will it really address corporate tax avoidance and evasion?<\/p>\n<p>Featuring: John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network; economist, lawyer and senior Tax Justice Network advisor James Henry; Somalian wife and mother Shamso Abdullahi\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AWOBahY4m7M\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed by CCTV Africa<\/a>\u00a0), and Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The remittance cartel: &#039;taxing of the poor&#039; #46\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-f3Bn1jlC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the October 2015 Tax Justice Network Podcast\u00a0we look at the &#8216;remittance cartel&#8217; and their &#8216;taxing of the poor&#8217; with monopoly prices in a juicy<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/25\/the-october-taxcast-from-the-tax-justice-network-3\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}