The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens
Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
Bok Engelsk 2015
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| Omfang | XII, 129 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: acting against tax havens -- A century of offshore finance -- The missing wealth of nations -- Mistakes -- What to do?: a new approach -- The tax avoidance of multinational corporations.. - We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world's wealth hidden in tax havens--in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands--this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world's assets are currently hidden--until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world's money held in tax havens. And it's staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His reasearch reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%--there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least
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| Emner | Tax evasion.
Tax havens. Skatteunndragelse Kapitalbevegelser Vis mer... Skatteparadiser
Skatteplanlegging Tax evasion : (OCoLC)fst01143749 Tax havens : (OCoLC)fst01143780 økonomisk vekst ulikhet økonomi skatter skattlegging skatteparadis skatteunndragelse |
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| ISBN | 022624542X. - 9780226245423
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