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Luxembourg's Tax Deals

Luxembourg faces new allegations it offered tax breaks for more than 300 global companies. Plus, we talk to the boss of a firm selling 3D food printers.

Luxembourg faces new allegations it offered tax breaks for more than 300 global companies, with EU leaders promising to investigate. Luxembourg's finance minister says the country has done nothing wrong and that the deals were perfectly legal. We talk to someone who disagrees - Nicholas Shaxson, tax campaigner and author of Treasure Islands, a book on tax havens - and ask what's being done to try to stop these arrangements.

As oil prices continue to fall we hear how it's hurting Venezuela's oil-reliant economy, and we talk to the Secretary-General of OPEC about whether it plans to take action to stabilise prices.

And, as a conservation group accuses Chinese officials of smuggling ivory out of Tanzania, we hear from Greenpeace member Tianjie Ma about what it's like to be an activist in Beijing. He joins us throughout the programme.

Plus, we talk to the boss of a firm selling 3D food printers, and we hear why clothes for dogs is becoming big business in the US. We're also joined throughout by Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland.

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Fri 7 Nov 2014 01:05GMT

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  • Fri 7 Nov 2014 01:05GMT

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