The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
How Britain’s system of offshore finance and tax havens developed and preserved the UK’s role as the largest player in international finance.
Read more...Category Archives: Taxes
Beating the Tax Gap
The UK focuses on the tax gap, how much tax it ought to be collecting versus what it gets. Why isn’t this a concern in the US?
Read more...Taxcast: A Firewall to Protect EU Citizens from the Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Tax Avoidance Lobby
In the Tax Justice Network’s July 2018 Taxcast, Vickie Cann and John Christensen examine a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby, as well as look at a new report from the Corporate Europe Observatory.
Read more...The Missing Profits of Nations
Profit shifting is a key driver of the decline in global average statutory corporate tax rate, which has fallen by more than half
Read more...Taxcast: How Accountants Broke Capitalism
No matter what the scandal is, when it comes to financial secrecy and tax dodging, the so-called big four accountancy firms are key players. The latest June 2018 Taxcast discusses how accountants broke capitalism.
Read more...Tesla And GM Close To Capping Out On Electric Vehicle Tax Incentives
Tesla and GM are nearing the end of a subsidy road.
Read more...How Tax Evasion Increases Inequality
Total tax evasion among the top 0.01% in Scandinavia is roughly 10 times the level of the population at large.
Read more...Trump’s Carbon Capture Tax Break: Mechanical and Biological Paths
Looking at the potential benefit of tax subsidies for carbon capture.
Read more...Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy.
Read more...Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
Michael Hudson discusses monopoly capitalism on the Laura Flanders show.
Read more...Hiding from the Tax Man, International Wealthy Style
Tax avoidance is an ever-evolving game. Some fresh information on which countries are willing to offer a helping hand to the rich.
Read more...Bitcoin as Prosecution Futures: Coinbase Agrees to Turn Customer Records Over to Department of Justice for Possible Tax Evasion
Even in the US, which so far has been more lenient toward cryptocurrencies than China, the noose is tightening. Top Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has decided that trying to defy the law, in terms of not complying with a IRS summons requiring it to turn over information about customers who had engaged in more than $20,000 […]
Read more...Tax Astroturf: The B-Team Lowers the Bar for Tax Transparency
Quelle surprise! The B Team, a supposed top group for “responsible business,” punts on tax transparency.
Read more...Reclaiming the Tax: Foregrounding the Public Covenant
Rethinking the MMT rhetoric around tax….and implications for policy prescriptions.
Read more...Larry Summers: Reagan’s Tax Plan Was Better Than Trump’s
Summers on inequality, the GOP tax plan, and US economic prospects.
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