The Tax Free Tour - VPRO documentary - 2013

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"Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally.
Those routes go by resounding names like 'Cayman Special', 'Double Irish', and 'Dutch Sandwich'.
Surprisingly, the concentration of wealth is much worse than stated in the film explaining 10 million people are at the top 1%, but in 2012 three mathematicians from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology when researching the corporate connections around the world, came to the conclusion that a mere few hundred individuals control 80% of the world’s output and assets, only 737 in fact.

Very clear to me is that not the companies are to blame but the local governments. If the iPad is cheaper due to tax evation apple is happy, the investors are happy, and nottge least the customer is happy. It is the governments (formost dutch, lyxemburg and UK) that are to blame for having us all come thus far. After brexit who can blame Starbucks to move from AMS to London?

very harmonic video thank you

Very educational.

isn't it funny how it's always the former lawyers, bankers and accountants who try to alarm the public of "evil rich people" because they were failures in their respective careers.

£500B was used to bail out the banks. And to think we're worried about £39B for the EU.

That laugh at the end!

Don't use music

eye opening documentary, thank you for teaching your viewers what should be taught in public schools as part of real education of how the world works, or rather how corrupt and shameless it is.

I love your documentaries. Thanks and keep it up!

Vpro keep it up....love ittt

Interesting documentary. The low-income doesn't pay a lot of taxes. The poor are the beneficiaries of the social welfare state. They wish the high taxes be kept in place and rich would pay more so that the social services continue to be subsidized. The rich think they work hard for their money and shouldn't be penalized by high taxes. Otherwise if you subsidize the poor, give them no incentive to work.

For the past 50 years , you have all been relying on experts. I will make this short. Fire all the fucking university educated experts , replace them with chimpanzees . Second... institute a flat taxe system .
No exemptions. Penalties would be for the betrayal of public domain. No exemptions. Bernie Madoff
type of penalty . No taxes havens. That simple , do not like it,....fuck of....no sales in us.

Those men on the answering committee are Satan in flesh and body with suit and tie. Pure evil

Frederick Bastiat wrote a book about this called "The Law" 150 years ago. What we call it now is regulatory capture.

true tax eveders must have studyied in britain, white hair , of male decent ....and very smart in matters of finance

Google, Amazon, Apple, Starbucks. Anyone else notice a common thread? A fascinating subject polluted by a bunch of big government anti-American crybabies. Tax Law. Who makes laws? Government. If you don't like the laws, change them or shut your collective pie holes. These companies are doing what they can to legally reduce the taxes they must legally pay. Isn't this just a story of different governments w/ different laws all competing w/ one another to get companies to do the maximum amount of business in their countries as opposed to their competitors?

If we are in a battle for survive, we are not greede.
There is no such thing as human nature, any inter cultural analysis can show that.

the end goal is a world government where all corporations pay tax to

How in the world is this not seen by more people! Wake up China has been handed a low tax to help them grow, and it needs to change. Trump is on the right route.

This hearing is going NoWhere.....along with all their money hiding in the Tax havens"......While the majority is Forced, monitoried, exploited, embezzled, and taxed with serious 35% more than one way........This is totally backwards and demands rigorous attention and Reform....We can fix this and its time that we make it right.....

Why all these "great geniuses" who support Lightning take and take taxes from people, portray themselves as angels. Exclusive of this morbid pursuit of the rich and their money box money would have grown much more, they do not realize that wealth is a stream of money and not money itself, it is a one-dimensional non-serious investigation that reflects an unreal reality, you are poor in your subconscious.

I am so late to learning about this...it's depressing. Thank you for the hard work that you do.

If countries would charge a simple tax thats within fair norms lets say 10% across the board. As long as people feel that those moneys are being used for the benefit of the people and not all the waist that we see spent by governments. Taxes would be much more excepted and companies might not run all over the world to save money!

Give me a good reason why if you work hard the government can take 50% or more of the money you make? What’s fair about that?

I thought we had freedom? Its an illusion..unless you’re able to play the game! So don’t get mad at the top 1% become them by starting your own business and play the game. The plays are business owners the pawns are employees! Which one do you choose to be? Its your choices?!? See in the long run entrepreneurs create the jobs which fulls the economic growth. All those employees pay taxes in those countries. Consumers also pay sales taxes on the products the companies make. Thats the point! Till next time!

Road kill subliminal society

que asco de reportaje las empresas ojala no paguen impuestos y capitalicen y den mas trabajo ya que los políticos ladrones se quedan con todo y no le llegan los recursos a los mas pobres

Double talk and euphemisms... That isn't only bankers but also politicians that are in cahoots with bankers and lawyers.

Imagine if all workers did the same thing. The only reason they don't is because the same companies are withholding part of the salary of workers, on the behest of the state for tax. When we reach the point where nobody is employed and everybody works as freelancers, and thereby as suppliers to what would have been an employer, then every worker is in effect "a company" and they will be able to do the same thing. Then nobody pays tax. So who will pay for pavement, hospitals, train tracks etc.....?

....."hopefully the citizens will rise in revolt"........is she high? It never gonna happen. The citizens ant continue watching reality tv and go to shopping centers. It's depressing...

The goal is that the powerless must be taxed.

hang by the neck till dead

😂😂😂 It's ugly!

Una espléndida demostración de como continua la esclavitud, solo cambiaron los dueños. El capitalismo funciona, pero empecemos a aplicarlo y dejemos de lado el colonialismo de una vez.

10 year tax holiday? Somebody is getting a kickback. Standard.

World Bank investigates HAHAHA👽🛸

Everyone should pay as less tax as they possibly can..... its like kinda normal LOL

4G is distributed from tall towers. So only the people installing it are n danger due to their proximity to where the antennas are. All of the anti 5G/anti-Icke videos I’ve seen show the tall towers with the 4G antennas. The truth is that 5G is beamed from eye-level locations and are by necessity in far more locations. They are not noticeable to the average person. But medical doctors whose testimony to the Congress confirm that close proximity to these unabtrusive white boxes pose a threat due to the radiation they emit. A clip of someone denying any danger is reminiscent of those who shilled for the tobacco industry for years. They too claimed tobacco use was harmless. Keep that in mind!
There is also the question of so called “smart meters” that are being installed as we speak. I asked the man who had just finished installing one at my house. No advance notice or permission was requested. He said if I wanted the old analog one to replace the radiation emitting meter I would have to pay a monthly fee on top of a $175 replacement fee. I had done the research on how much radiation comes from the “smart meters”.
So bottom line you are being bombarded by unnecessary amounts of (cancer causing) radiation via 5G and smart meters. Ask yourselves, WHY? Do the research and write your news media, your representatives, and your fellow online friends.
AND SHARE THIS INFORMATION . Copy and paste to reach the widest audience.

That lady saying CocaCola doesn't have to build schools in India is bullshit, Do you know how many Indian villages become barren because of Coca cola and Pepsi sucking the groundwater dry.

I don't belive to the russian mafia history lied to Cyprus' banks, I don't belive in UE, but it's a good documentary

God must be sayin what have i done. Alot of people better be apologizing for their ignorant ways. 3 types of people, the pinstripe mafia. wtheck.

I am floored.

God this video made me so sad :(

Cant beleive they laughed at the guy that suggested taxes be paid in the country your doing business in. The corporate oarasite that just takes.

INTENTIONAL & OBVIOUS USE OF SHELL CORPS TO AVOID TAXATION SHOULD READILY FIND CEO'S CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR FELONY FRAUD.... AND PONY UP OUR PORTION WE ARE SUBSIDIZING... PERIOD
'THEY' ARE STEALING FROM EVERY SINGLE TAXED PERSON ON THE PLANET, ENJOYING ALL THE BENEFITS OF HIWAYS, FIRE & POLICE, EVERY INFRASTRUCTURE COST THE GLOBE'S MUNICIPALITIES INCUR, THEY GET THESE RESOURCES FOR FREE.