One of the rare politicians who’s always understood international tax. Good pithy explanation of the challenge of trying to tax turnover in a fundamentally profits based tax system.
Yes, democracy is in trouble. But burning it down is not an option! Jericho partner @Neal_Compass shares his latest piece in the Guardian: https://t.co/WPxVPc2J8o
Brainstorming w colleagues at @WEF Council on the future of trade & investment 👍👍 #GFC2019
See last piece we produced earlier this year with scenarios 4 trade
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7. And final point: A. Swistak and I have been working on a new progressive VAT model, which keeps the efficiency of the tax, but provides real-time relief for pooresr income HH, thus substantially decreasing inequality.
We think it can work.
@StuartJones I recall someone telling us that they had received a letter from HMRC saying their tax return was outstanding. They replied - thank you for the accolade, but I don’t remember submitting one.
CTA Address @VanessaHoulder1 - tax debate has gone from being boring and misunderstood to being impassioned and misunderstood. News rooms have shrunk but investigative journalism worth finding time for. Easier than it used to be access annual reports etc
@DanNeidle@Oxfam@CGDev This doesn't come from @oxfam it comes from @imfnews! (but relates to all non-OECD countries not SSA). I don't know why the IMF and co. give quite so much confidence to this number when the authors say it was highly speculative.
We continue to seek responses to Tax & Trust, a paper co-authored with Jane McCormick.
This from @M_Heffernan, bestselling author of Wilful Blindness: "We need to reposition tax as a badge of success: not something to minimise, ev…https://t.co/kwMf2THprK https://t.co/tMnsyME4C4
Tax record transparency in #Norway encourages snooping on incomes of friends, relatives, etc. - this game of income comparisons reduces the wellbeing of poorer Norwegians while boosting the self-esteem of the rich, @pereztruglia evidence on #taxporn@voxeu https://t.co/dlLT6xGPGX