I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – creating higher rates of income tax
In a series of videos I am exploring the changes to the UK’s tax system that are required to tackle the problems that growing inequality
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Can we tax multi-millionaires?
The video in this post is the third in a series on how to tax multimillionaires. The first and second are here. In this video
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Why multi-millionaires pay too little in tax
It is a fact that multi-millionaires pay too little in tax in the UK and many other countries. This is not just because some of
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It is time that tax justice campaigners realised that tax havens have changed and that they are not mainly in the business of facilitating income and corporate tax abuses now
In a recent series of videos that I posted on this blog I looked at the way in which tax havens have changed their activities
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Tax and benefit fraud – and securing the resources needed to tackle them – are amongst the biggest issues tax justice campaigners should now be talking about
There are two reports out today that indicate that fraud and official error are major contributors to the UK tax gap. The first is from
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The Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 claims that tax haven abuse by wealthy people costs $171 billion a year. The actual figure is more likely to be $4 billion a year.
The Tax Justice Network has published its 2021 State of Tax Justice Report. Regular readers of this blog will know that I was underwhelmed by
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Tax Inspectors Without Borders
Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a great joint OECD / UNDP programme in which John Christensen, formerly of the Tax Justice Network has played a
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Tax spillovers: the podcast
I have for the last two years or so been doing a lot of work on what my Sheffield University colleague Professor Andrew Baker and
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