France’s Macron Makes Concessions While ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Continue
Some background on the demands the gilets jaunes are presenting to French president Macron.
Read more...Category Archives: Taxes
The Impact of Inheritance Taxes on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Inheritance tax cuts cost non-currency-issuing governments more than just the lost inheritance tax revenues.
Read more...Michael Olenick: A Quick Look at the Gilets Jaunes Protests. Update: They Won!
An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...The Global Financial Crime Wave Is No Accident
Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
Read more...‘A Staggeringly Bad Idea’: Pelosi Pushes Tax Rule That Would ‘Kneecap the Progressive Agenda’
Nancy Pelosi proposes a tax rule that would shackle Democrats by requiring a supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom 80% of the population, thus effectively stymieing their ability to enact any major new spending programs.
Read more...Trump and the Midterms: Is It Not The Economy, Stupid?
What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Apple Has an Early Case of GE’s Disease
Silicon Valley stars like Apple suffer from financialization—the same ailment that felled GE and Lucent.
Read more...Video: An intro to MMT, as presented at September’s International MMT Conference in NYC
A very readable — or listenable — introduction to MMT, in plain language
Read more...Richard Murphy: Who Really Pays the Tax on Rents?
Clearing up a widespread misperception about tax.
Read more...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...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.
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