TaxCast Norway (Pengeland in English)

Can we combat poverty without economic growth?In this episode, we talk with Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. His latest report addresses this very issue. How can we continue to fund education, health, and welfare while considering the planet's limitations? And what role will taxes and tax system reforms play in a growth-free future

Alex Cobham was in Oslo in December to discuss his latest book "What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Tax Justice?". Together with Cobham, we explore the history and possibilities of tax justice. We delve into the development and influence of the tax justice movement in connection with the Tax Justice Network's 20th anniversary. How has this movement shaped today's tax system

How is it that the world's most powerful country has become the best place to hide money?Last year, the latest edition of the Financial Secrecy Index, a ranking by the Tax Justice Network of the world's best countries for hiding money, was released. The United States was in first place, thus being called the world's largest tax haven for the first time. But why is that, really? The

Tax havens have perfected the art of offering services that bypass laws and regulations in other countries. The lack of transparency regarding the ownership of shell companies and trusts, and what goes on within them, has made tax havens a useful tool for everything from tax evasion to corruption, money laundering, and terrorist financing.The demand for greater transparency in owne

Many associate South Africa with an inspiring story of the fight against apartheid, whichhad a happy ending when Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerkreceived theNobel Peace Prize in 1993.But history never ends. In this episode of Taxcast Norway, we will hear how South Africa – under former president Jacob Zuma – became so permeated with corruption that agovernment – ap

According to a new report, African countries are drained of more than 10 billion US dollarsannually, as a result of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Countries in South America and Southeast Asia are also affected. In most cases, the fishing is carried out by large commercial fishing companies, where the ownership of the fishing boats is hidden through layers of tax have

In this episode of TaxCast Norway we talk to professor Kanchana Ruwanpura from the University of Gothenburg about the situation in Sri Lanka.This is an excerpt from a longer episode in Norwegian: https://www.spreaker.com/user/taxcastnorge/20220427a-sri-lanka-5-norskThe episode was recorded 27.04.2022. Guest:- Professor Kanchana Ruwanpura - University of GothenburgHosts: - Peter Rin

In this episode of TaxCast Norway we talk to Martin Hearson from the International Centre for Tax and Development about tax treaties and try to answer why developing countries, who seemingly only limit their ability to tax foreign multinationals through tax treaties with rich countries, still have signed thousands of them. Guest:- Martin Hearson, author of «Imposing Standards, The

It has long been known that the powerful Kenyatta family holds a great deal of wealth within Kenyas’ borders. The global document leak #PandoraPapers has recently disclosed that Kenya’s sitting president and his family also have wealth stashed away abroad. This has led to public outcry in the country. Guest: - Francis Kairu, Policy Advisor, Tax Justice Network - AfricaHosts: -

Just days before she was appointed as the Biden-administration head of Office for Tax Analysis at the US Treasury, a conversation between Kimberly Clausing and Alex Cobham and our hosts Peter Ringstad and Ingrid Hjertaker about the art of estimating profit shifting to tax havens, and a plan for pragmatic tax reform for the US.Papers discussed in this interview:- Kimberly Clausing: