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Finance
Nick Shaxson: No, corporate tax avoidance is not legal
So tax avoidance is perfectly legal: it’s evasion that’s illegal (and criminal)? Not so fast. Read here
Tax
EU politics
vrt NWS: Former EU Commissioner and wife convicted of tax evasion
The former European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht (Flemish liberal) and his wife, the Police Court Judge Mireille Schreurs have been convicted of tax evasion That says a lot for the EU elite. Read here
Economics
Prosperity: better business makes the greater good, by Colin Mayer
Book review by David Shirreff Capitalism needs a re-think – large swathes of economists and policy-makers would agree with that. But how do you change the nature of a company – that building-block of capitalism […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – British American Tobacco Shifts Nearly $1bn out of Developing Countries into One UK Office
For every dollar British American Tobacco (BAT) paid in tax in the countries it operates in, the giant multinational shifted more than half a dollar that would have been taxed locally to a UK subsidiary […]
Economics
Transit Lounge – Nicholas Shaxson talks power, money and the finance curse at Dark Havens
Nicholas Shaxson unveils the secrets of the seriously, filthy rich and talks me through how many of the world’s offshore tax havens are not only tropical islands, but actually British & OECD territories. Just what […]
Finance
Prem Sikka: Billionaires are a threat to democracy
Taxation revenues are the basis of the modern state. Without them, it cannot perform its administrative and redistributive functions. Read here
Finance
Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity – Ecological Tax Reform + Functional Finance
In this episode in our Green New Deal series, GISP Research Director Mathew Forstater discuses a proposal to combine ecological tax reform with Functional Finance. Ecological tax reform would use taxes, fines, subsidies, regulations, and […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – The Taxcast: The Jersey edition
Welcome to this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey In this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey:– […]
Aviation
Richard Murphy: Taxes to Save the Environment – a Progressive Air Travel Tax
Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK proposes hitting those wanton frequent fliers – such as workaholic businesspersons and owners of second homes abroad – with a progressive Tax to Save the Environment (TASTE). Unpopular but […]
Aviation
Andrew Murphy – Governments Can Stop Other Airlines Joining Ryanair as Top-10 Emitter
Aviation is the most carbon-intensive mode of transport, and Europe’s fastest-growing source of emissions. Time to stop the rot. Andrew Murphy writes on aviation for Transport & Environment Cross-posted from Transport & Environment Ryanair grabbed […]