That's the headline of a provocative article by U.S. rock star tax expert Lee Sheppard, … [Read more...]
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Do tax cuts promote growth? Part MCXIV
The world's economists have been arguing over this question for decades. Which is odd, because the evidence is rather clear on this point. … [Read more...]
Links Jan 9
Tell Barclays To Clean Up its Act ActionAid The G20 and the taxing issue of making big business pay The Conversation … [Read more...]
New report: how Finnish multinationals use tax havens
Our partners at Finnwatch have just published an important new report looking at the activity of Finnish multinational corporations in tax havens. … [Read more...]
If Ireland is not a tax haven, what is it? A bagel?
From the Treasure Islands blog, reposted with permission. Ireland continues to annoy me. Not Ireland the country, of course: it's just the tax haven industry that has grown upthere. It annoys me because there are so many influential voices there that deny Ireland is a tax haven. All tax … [Read more...]
Tax justice: a human rights issue
Tax justice: a human rights issue Adrienne Margolis November 2013 If you ask the question “Is tax justice a human rights issue?” you tend to get one of two responses. Some people say of course it is; others can't see the link at all. But if you say there is a relationship between tax and … [Read more...]
Infographic: a short history of tax havens
Click twice to enlarge. Or see the infographic here. … [Read more...]
Time to abolish the corporate tax? Part 2: Only fools or shills would agree
Yesterday we posted a blog looking at a New York Times editorial entitled Abolish the Corporate Income Tax, exposing many of the numerous fallacies and misunderstandings at the base of it. Forgive us for going on about this, but it is important. Now Citizens for Tax Justice in the U.S. has … [Read more...]
Time to abolish the corporate tax? Learned professor creates huge tax model to illustrate . . . nothing
Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University, has written an opinion article in the New York Times headlined Abolish the Corporate Income Tax. … [Read more...]
TJF: mythbusters with pdf
May 2013 – Looking at persistent and powerful myths in contemporary economics. The mythical Adam Smith – Daniel Stedman-Jones The City of London in myth and reality – Aeron Davis Enterprise and rent-seeking: a mythical conflation - William Davies Economic illiteracy in UK politics –Robin … [Read more...]
Tax Justice Focus: The Mythbusters edition
May 2013 - TJF explores some of the most persistent and powerful myths in contemporary economics. Click here. Our lead articles: The mythical Adam Smith - Daniel Stedman-Jones The City of London in myth and reality - Aeron Davis Enterprise and rent-seeking: a mythical conflation - William … [Read more...]
Illicit Capital Flows and the Offshore Economy
For a general "Magnitudes" page giving estimates of the size of illicit financial flows and other measurements that are of interest to TJN, click here. < Update: March 2009. Christian Aid's False Profits: robbing the poor to keep the rich tax-free estimates that between 2005 and 2007, the … [Read more...]
Inequality & Democracy Introduction
Main Page on this topic Other areas of interest Aid, Tax & State-building Capital Flight Corruption Tax Havens & Inequality … [Read more...]
