For autocratic regimes, increasing taxes could put their survival at risk.
detailsEconomic policymakers can no longer afford to view inequality as an issue separate from boosting employment and incomes. Addressing it through a wealth tax, combined with more effective antitrust policies and enforcement, has become essential to sustainin
detailsNot surprisingly, American billionaires have dismissed recent wealth-tax proposals as an affront to the entrepreneurial spirit to which they attribute their massive wealth.
detailsThe crisis in Lebanon has been simmering for months
detailsAfter Lebanons civil war ended in 1990, it began rapidly expanding the public debt. This debt has exacerbated widening socioeconomic inequalities, now threatening the countrys stability.
detailsMany economists already favor a consumption-based tax system for raising revenue on grounds of efficiency and simplicity.
detailsA look at a decade of failed social, economic and political reform in Jordan goes a far way to explain recent mass anti-government protests demanding the resignation of the government.
detailsUS President Donald Trumps plan to boost infrastructure spending through tax credits has received a cool reception from investors
detailsThe recent corporate-tax cuts in the United States have intensified an ongoing global race to the bottom
detailsObservers say lack of clarity among EU member states over delisting likely an attempt to preempt questions about their own tax havens
detailsTerms of new IMF loan dictate that fuel subsidies have to be scrapped, meaning costs are increasing yet again
detailsAssuming that interest rates on the national debt eventually rise, taxes will need to go up, urgently on the wealthy but some day on the middle class
detailsThanks to the Panama Papers, governments around the world have faced increasing pressure to push for tax transparency.
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