VIRTEU Roundtable Session 4: Institutional Corruption and Avoidance of Taxation

Описание: This Roundtable Discussion Series brings together distinguished guests from academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, as well as law firms, and researchers associated with VIRTEU (www.virteu.com).

The event has been co-organized by the VIRTEU Special Adviser Prof. Diane Ring, the project Principal Investigator, Dr. Costantino Grasso, and the Co-Investigator, Dr. Lorenzo Pasculli.

This is the video of the Roundtable Discussion Series third session, which was held on the 12th of March 2021 and focused on "Institutional Corruption and Avoidance of Taxation."

Panelists:
• Prof. Brandon L. Garret
L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law
Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice
• Prof. Lord Prem Nath Sikka
Member of the UK House of Lords
Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex
• John Christensen
Director and Founder of the global Tax Justice Network
VIRTEU Impact Expert and Partner

Main Topics
• The state-corporate nexus: exploring conflict-of-interest situations.
• Undue corporate influence on the political process and lax regulation.
• Tax prosecutions of corporations and backroom deals.
• Future perspectives and recommendations.

0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Opening Remarks
15:18 - Inter-state corruption in the area of taxation
41:34 - Complexity of tax regulations and auditing procedures
55:22 - How to counter institutional corruption?
1:06:17 - UK Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill
1:13:26 - Regulatory capture and Global North/Global South relationship
1:20:14 - Exchange of favors and interdependence of members of the elite
1:27:24 - Institutional corruption and public-private partnerships
1:33:58 - Summing-Up