Energy Subsidies – Widespread, Significant, and Largely Not Reaching the Poor
Fernando Navajas | 18 April 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Energy,
Inequality,
Subsidies
Energy subsidies are widespread and significant. In 2014, according to the IEA (2015), government support for global fossil fuel consumption amounted to 490 billion US$. An IMF working paper (Coady et al., 2015) reports even higher numbers. Distinguishing between subsidies before (pre) and after (post)
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Corporate Taxation, BEPS and the Swiss Corporate Tax Reform III
31 May 2016
Fiscal,
Roundtables | Tags:
Corporate Taxes
Roundtable – co-organized with Avenir Suisse – on corporate taxation, BEPS and the Swiss Corporate Tax Reform III with David Bradbury, Head, Tax Policy and Statistics Division, OECD.
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Multinational tax avoidance in developing countries
Niels Johannesen,
Thomas Tørsløv and
Ludvig Wier | 7 April 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Corporate Taxes,
Development,
Tax Avoidance
In recent years many global firms—including Starbucks, Google, and Amazon—have come under fire for avoiding paying taxes in one country by shifting their profits to a country with lower tax rates.
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Finance, Growth and Inequality
Boris Cournède and
Oliver Denk | 31 March 2016
Fiscal,
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Financial Markets,
Inequality
Finance is the lifeblood of modern economies, but too much of the wrong type of finance can hamper economic prosperity and social cohesion. We have taken a holistic approach to study the consequences of finance for the inclusiveness of growth, in the spirit of the
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Tax Expenditures Deserve Far More Scrutiny
Adam Corlett | 30 December 2015
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
UK
Last month, the UK government presented its Spending Review, setting out departmental budgets for the next four years. There were protections for some departments and large cuts (though smaller than expected) for others. Coming after years of previous cuts, many departmental budgets by 2019 will
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