Here we collect everything about taxes.
EU politics
Gotechdaily: Twelve EU states reject shift to expose companies’ tax avoidance
Is this the bright new EU dawn which mainstream media keeps writing about? Read here
Tax
Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Finance
Branko Milanović – Antifragile States and Global Cities
How globalisation has allowed small states to become major players and big cities to outgrow their nation-states Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of […]
Finance
Global Alliance for Tax Justice – Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry now!
As global capitalism continues to lurch from one crisis to the next, massive levels of tax abuse and avoidance are robbing governments of the resources they need. Nowhere is this systemic malaise more manifest than […]
EU politics
Richard Murphy – We can do without the wealthy, their taxes, and the denial of opportunity that they represent
Richard Murphy telling it like it is. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion, as well as blogging […]
Economics
Brad W. Setser – Ireland’s Statistical Cry for Help
The distortions to Irish GDP created by new tax residents of Ireland (largely tax “optimizing” US multinationals) have become so big that they are contaminating the numbers for the euro area as a whole. Brad […]
Finance
Nick Shaxson: If tax havens scare you, monopolies should too. And vice versa.
An excellent article, although rather long. So if you have an hour on the weekend to dedicate to erudition read HERE
Economics
Michael Roberts – Tax Justice Now! by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez
Taxing away billionaires to end inequality. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog The Triumph of Injustice: how the rich dodge taxes and how […]
Economics
Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”
Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]
Finance
Prem Sikka: Tax dodging must be an issue in a snap election
Organised tax avoidance by corporations and the rich is costing the UK between £34bn/35bn & £122bn each year. The money that can be used for education, healthcare, security and redistribution. Read here