Economics
the juice – Trickledown economics
A funny piece, which explains why tricledown eocnomics in Australia is simply bollocks. Watch here
Tax
Austerity
Paul Mason: Neoliberalism is a real economic model – here’s how the left can overturn it
The replacement of a hyper-financialised system will require a radical reshaping of the state, new national and global institutions, and new treaties. Read here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – LuxLeaks verdict: hope for whistleblowers as Antoine Deltour is acquitted
We’ve always said that the #LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and investigative journalist Edouard Perrin should never have been charged because the disclosures they were involved in were so obviously in the public interest, […]
Corruption
Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
Finance
EPSU – Unhappier Meal: Tax Avoidance Still on the Menu at McDonald’s
One sees how easy tax dodging is in the EU. If you have problems in one nation, one simply moves to the next. There are almost 200 nations in the world, so there will never […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Wealthiest households in Westminster failing to pay extra £833 in tax
This has to be one of the most idiotic articles published in a long while – and that in the Guardian. Neo-liberalism is about winner take all. That is why the tax system is so […]
Economics
John Weeks – Politics of Monetary Policy and Why Progressives Prefer to Tax & Spend
One of the most important victories of neo-liberalism was banning serious fiscal policy by democratically elected governments to deal with economic crises, relegating this power to monetary policy of purportedly independent, yet unelected, central banks. […]
EU politics
Helen Lock: ‘Google go home’: the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a tech giant
Everything the monopolist Google touches it corrupts. For this reason citizens of Berlins borough Kreuzberg does not want them moving in. Rents are already rocketing in the city. There is no reason why Google have […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: Tax-haven transparency won’t stop money laundering in Britain
Money laundering is not an accident, aberration, or crime. It is an institution. Read here