Podcast: Iceland – Offshorisation, Collapse and Recovery. What Are the Lessons?
A discussion of the role that offshore played in Iceland’s banking bubble and implosion, plus a high level corruption scandal in Spain.
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Switzerland Seen Backing Down on Supporting Tax Haven USA
The US gets some badly-needed pushback on the tax haven front.
Read more...Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck
People don’t mind inequality due to “brute luck”…but is one man’s brute luck another man’s rigged system?
Read more...Report: New Data Disproves US Corporations’ False Narrative on Taxes
A new study on corporate tax havens shows how multinational corporations avoiding U.S. taxes represents a transfer to them from workers.
Read more...Report: Why We Need to Tax Corporations Now, More Than Ever
Why the idea that corporations should get favored tax treatment is dubious.
Read more...The Bahamas’ Giant, Fist-Pumping Screw-You to the Civilized World
The Bahamas decides to compete aggressively to become the most infamous tax haven around.
Read more...Corporate Tax Cuts: More Debunking of the Claim that They Spur Growth
Contrary to aggressive corporate PR, why corporate tax cuts do not promote investment in projects that promote growth.
Read more...Taxcast on Big Four Accounting and the Duke of Westminster
Should the Big Four be broken up? And how about the Duke of Westminster’s $9 billion tax-free inheritance?
Read more...Top Marginal Tax Rates and Real Economic Growth, Part 1
This post looks at the relationship between the top marginal income tax bracket and growth in real GDP per capita (from NIPA table 7.1) in the subsequent year or years.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: the Scandals, the Reforms, and Some Throat-Clearing From the EU
NZ’s promised Foreign Trust reforms still don’t look quite right
Read more...Video: Guide to Legal Tax Evasion (With #iPhone7Boycott)
A humorous starter guide as to how multinational engage in legal tax evasion, and how to tell Apple to cut it out.
Read more...TaxCast on Panama Papers and Brexit
The latest Tax Justice network podcast covers some hot topics, including key journalist accounts on the Panama Papers.
Read more...Financial Times Picks Up on Irish Growth Blarney Story…. That We Reported Months Ago
Irish growth is even phonier than the media would have you believe.
Read more...Brexit Empty Threats: The UK’s Fantasy of Becoming a Big Tax Haven
How a naive idea about the UK becoming a big fat tax haven to stick it to the EU reveals a lot about official and pundit thinking.
Read more...Now Luxembourg, Switzerland Are Working to Bolster Tax Haven USA
How tax havens cooperate with each other to preserve their perks.
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