What we learnt from speaking to voters about wealth taxes
Tax Justice UK research finds focus groups back taxing the rich – but hesitate to criticise billionaires.
Tax Justice UK research finds focus groups back taxing the rich – but hesitate to criticise billionaires.
Tory MEPs voted against country-by-country reporting five times
We need to show our anger about greedy corporates depriving our public services of investment.
So, cutting taxes just makes the rich richer. And that’s it. And since we know inequality harms society these tax rates, it follows, are harmful to us all – the rich included.
Live chat, 21 May 2013. 12.30PM
This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the “tax wedge” taken from employment earnings for all 34 OECD countries.
The government claim to be taking tax avoidance seriously, but so far the rhetoric has been far removed from reality.
Richard Murphy from Tax Research UK proposes a new Tax Justice Consensus to replaced the predominant ideas of the Washington Consensus.
Martin Hearson, a tax policy adviser at ActionAid UK, explains the consequences of chancellor George Osborne’s plan to relax anti-tax haven abuse legislation.