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Chart of the Week #6: Gas Is Too Damn Cheap
Justin Sandefur
February 10, 2018
Fuel subsidies are bad for the planet, expensive, and often regressive. With new, high-frequency price data researchers explore why they’re also so hard to kill.
POLICY PAPERS
Tax and Development: New Frontiers of Research and Action
Maya Forstater
February 08, 2018
This paper looks at estimates of the potential gains from taxing across borders, alongside largely domestic measures such as property tax, personal income tax, VAT, and tobacco taxes. It finds that while action on cross-border taxation could yield additional tax take in the region of one percent of ...
BRIEFS
Tax and Development: New Frontiers of Research and Action (Brief)
Maya Forstater
February 08, 2018
Domestic measures have greater potential for raising tax yields over time. Rough estimates indicate that there may be $9 of additional tax capacity from domestic policy measures for every $1 from international action. The main enabler is political commitment.
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Tax and Development: Beyond the Big Numbers
Maya Forstater
February 08, 2018
Discussion on tax and development can be incoherent, both within and between different sectors. A symptom of this is the tendency for inflated expectations about the scale of revenues at stake in relation to multinational corporations and misunderstandings and contested definitions on the issue of i...
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Can Taxes Postpone Millions of Deaths Worldwide? A New Task Force Led by Michael Bloomberg and Lawrence Summers Inquires
William Savedoff
January 18, 2018
This week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers announced a new Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health. This is the first time such a high-level group of respected economic and fiscal policy opinion leaders has convened on this issue, creating an opportuni...
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Oxfam’s Tax Evasion Shock Video Is Distressing for the Wrong Reasons
Maya Forstater
November 01, 2017
“Some viewers may find this content distressing” is how Oxfam GB caveats its new video on corporate tax “dodging.” But what I find most disturbing is how it oversells tax transparency as a panacea for domestic resource mobilisation in developing countries.
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Why Development Finance Institutions Use Tax Havens
Paddy Carter
October 31, 2017
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) exist to promote development by investing in the poorest, least developed countries. They often route those investments via holding companies or private equity funds domiciled in tax havens. On the face of it, that seems absurd: tax havens are widely seen...