Taxing Questions (part three)

The Documentary: Archive 2007 by BBC

Nov 20, 200723:17Society & Culture

In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.

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