Corporate Tax Cuts: More Debunking of the Claim that They Spur Growth
Contrary to aggressive corporate PR, why corporate tax cuts do not promote investment in projects that promote growth.
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Taxcast on Big Four Accounting and the Duke of Westminster
Should the Big Four be broken up? And how about the Duke of Westminster’s $9 billion tax-free inheritance?
Read more...Top Marginal Tax Rates and Real Economic Growth, Part 1
This post looks at the relationship between the top marginal income tax bracket and growth in real GDP per capita (from NIPA table 7.1) in the subsequent year or years.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: the Scandals, the Reforms, and Some Throat-Clearing From the EU
NZ’s promised Foreign Trust reforms still don’t look quite right
Read more...Video: Guide to Legal Tax Evasion (With #iPhone7Boycott)
A humorous starter guide as to how multinational engage in legal tax evasion, and how to tell Apple to cut it out.
Read more...TaxCast on Panama Papers and Brexit
The latest Tax Justice network podcast covers some hot topics, including key journalist accounts on the Panama Papers.
Read more...Financial Times Picks Up on Irish Growth Blarney Story…. That We Reported Months Ago
Irish growth is even phonier than the media would have you believe.
Read more...Brexit Empty Threats: The UK’s Fantasy of Becoming a Big Tax Haven
How a naive idea about the UK becoming a big fat tax haven to stick it to the EU reveals a lot about official and pundit thinking.
Read more...Now Luxembourg, Switzerland Are Working to Bolster Tax Haven USA
How tax havens cooperate with each other to preserve their perks.
Read more...Vancouver Mayor Mulls Empty Homes Tax
Vancouver ponders a long-overdue measure to target residential real estate warehousing.
Read more...EU’s Politically Biased Tax Haven Blacklist Excludes US and Switzerland
Only small fry get whacked for being tax havens. The big boys get their waivers.
Read more...Another Day, Another Indication that the Clinton Campaign Remains Dangerously Clueless About What Will Matter Most in the General Election. Ho-hum.
The Clinton campaign keeps harping on identity politics, and ignores some of Trump’s major points of vulnerability. They can’t afford mistakes like that.
Read more...Americans Increasingly Angry With Corporate Desertions via Tax Inversions
Tax inversions damage the already low credibility of Corporate America.
Read more...Bogus Defenses of Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions
How corporate executives mislead the public about the economic effects of inversions and other tax strategies that book profits overseas.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Which US Companies Stockpile the Most Profit “Overseas?” But Where the Heck is the Money?
ebunking the mythology of overseas “profit”.
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