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Richard Allen
Campaign Manager for Retailers Against VAT Abuse Schemes (RAVAS).
Richard realises he can’t keep his business going any more, he gets ‘lawyered up’ and discovers that the European Commission is up for fighting against the UK.
Music (in order of use) is courtesy of Cherry Red Records: Watching the Sky by Kryptästesie, Hidden Attack by Treatment, Gone Like Tomorrow by Josiah, Prelude by Moom, Touchy Feelie by Kava Kava, and Gamoto Manopano by Sons of Selina.
This is a Tax Justice Network podcast with Naomi Fowler of the Taxcast podcast. Produced by Naomi Fowler and Leo Schick and sound designed by Leo Schick.
A tax haven or secrecy jurisdiction is a place that deliberately provides an escape route for people or entities who live or operate elsewhere. They shield them from whatever taxes, criminal laws, financial regulations, transparency or other constraints they don’t like. Ordinary people whose lives are affected by tax haven laws are not consulted on these laws because they live in other countries: they have no say in how those laws are made, thus undermining their democratic rights.
Tax evasion is an illegal – usually criminal – activity, by which a taxpayer escapes tax through deception. Tax avoidance, on the other hand, means getting around (or avoiding) the spirit of the law without actually breaking the law. There is a large grey area between the two poles of avoidance and evasion.
A tax haven or secrecy jurisdiction is a place that deliberately provides an escape route for people or entities who live or operate elsewhere. They shield them from whatever taxes, criminal laws, financial regulations, transparency or other constraints they don’t like. Ordinary people whose lives are affected by tax haven laws are not consulted on these laws because they live in other countries: they have no say in how those laws are made, thus undermining their democratic rights.