Yves here. An important and star-studded talk by TaxCast on the important topics of reducing big corporate tax avoidance and green laundering, as how banks cover up the extent of their funding of fossil fuel producers.

The first part of this discussion focuses on the notorious Apple tax case, which allowed Apple to create the fiction, thanks to a special treatment in Ireland, that it lived nowehre in the world from a tax perspective, even though its profits were managed via a hedge-fund-like operation in Nevada with the funds sitting in New York banks.

By Naomi Folwer. Originally published at TaxCast

Naomi Fowler: Hello and welcome to the Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network. I’m Naomi Fowler. On the Taxcast this month, a big victory against Ireland and Apple’s tax dodging pact which goes back years as the European Union Court of Justice rules it was against EU

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