Inequality Is Not Inevitable: Rewriting Laws to Reverse A Politics of Greed

Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.

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Another French Economist Cracks the Nut – Revealing True Costs of Tax Evasion

By analyzing data from central banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg, Gabriel Zucman has put creditable numbers on tax evasion, showing that it’s rampant – and a major driver of wealth inequality.

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Apple and Starbucks Under In-Depth Investigation For Tax Dodging In Europe

Large multinationals need to pay their fair share of taxes.

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Why 1 in 9 of America's Biggest Companies Pay Zero Taxes

Getting to a zero percent tax rate despite turning a profit requires creative accounting — and corporate tax codes allow companies to avoid tax liability even in years when they turn a profit. 57 companies listed on the S&P 500 index last year paid zilch.

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Greenland's Vote to Raise Corporate Taxes Deals Challenge to Global Mining Industry

Greenland's minister of business and natural resources helped turn taxing the value of minerals into a popular political cause — and voters recently decided against companies extracting their natural resources for free.

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Is Kenya Being Shaped into Africa's Flagship Tax Haven?

Until now, there has not been a major tax haven in mainland Africa. But we may now be looking at the most serious attempt to date to create one: in Kenya.

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Global Resistance to Tax Havens is Growing — Especially in Europe

Tax havens cause billions in annual damage to national economies around the world. The recent Offshore Leaks investigative reports are helping fuel efforts in Europe and the U.S. to have them eliminated.

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Secret Files Expose the Global Impact of Offshore Tax Havens

In what's being dubbed the biggest document leak since Wikileaks, a cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.

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How Uruguay Became A Giant Offshore Bank Account

Welcome to the tax haven you've never heard of.

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Government Report: U.S. Firm Stashing Tens of Billions in Tax Havens

The research arm of Congress is warning that U.S. corporations’ use of tax havens has risen substantially in recent years, with companies offering massively inflated profit reports from small countries with loose tax regulations.

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