Tax Evasion

At least $21 trillion of untaxed private wealth was invested in global tax havens in 2010, according to a report from the Tax Justice Network.

Lesley Curwen and her guests debate whether the fight against poverty is being undermined by tax cheating in low-income countries. Are governments going to act to stop it? And after the massive power cuts in India, how would you cope with two days without electricity?

Lesley Curwen and her guests debate tax evasion.

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Lesley's guests are James Henry, who wrote The Price of Offshore Revisited for the Tax Justice Network; Ronnie Ludwig, a partner in the accountancy firm Saffery Champness and a former tax inspector with expertise in tax havens, and the leading economist Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University in New York, who writes extensively on trade and development.