Why do Tax Havens Still Exist?
Politicians have promised an end to tax havens, so why are they still around?
The Inquiry · BBC World Service
July 28, 201523m 6s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (open.live.bbc.co.uk) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
In 2009, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared “the beginning of the end” for off-shore tax havens. Since then, the EU, the G20, President Obama and others have lined up to criticise them. And yet they arre still with us. Tim Whewell asks why tax havens continue to exist, and whether tax havens are really to blame for tax avoidance in the first place.
(Photo: Island in the Seychelles. Credit: Shutterstock)