Green Economy – Beware of Merchants of Doubt
Stephen Boucher | 17 April 2013
Fiscal,
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Green Growth,
Subsidies
Those who oppose change involving powerful economic sectors have long ago found an effective tactic: instilling doubt in the guise of reasonable arguments. A recent manifestation of this tactic is the claim that so-called ‘green jobs’ are too expensive and in fact destroy “real” jobs.
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The Case for an International Tax Organisation
Peter Dietsch and
Thomas Rixen | 19 March 2013
Fiscal,
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Tax Competition,
Taxes
Capital mobility entails fiscal interdependence. Since the abolition of capital controls in the 1960s and 1970s, and following the widespread abolition of withholding taxes in the wake of the first move in this direction by the Reagan administration in 1984, fiscal interdependence has turned from
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Sense & nonsense in end of year reviews
Simon Evenett | 21 January 2013
Fiscal,
Trade,
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Forecasting
The turn of every calendar year witnesses a spate of reviews by pundits in the media. For a columnist, these reviews are an attractive vehicle, ideally drawing upon events from the previous 12 months and combining them with insights into developments relating to the next
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Why a financial transaction tax is good for your pension
Avinash Persaud | 23 October 2012
Fiscal,
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Financial Markets,
Financial Transaction Tax
Before the end of 2012, it is likely that 9 EU Member countries will invoke the “Enhanced Co-operation Procedure” and move ahead with a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), that, if it had broad coverage of financial instruments and players would raise over USD$30bn, providing a
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Europe’s fiscal blind spot
Stephen Boucher | 23 October 2012
Fiscal,
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Carbon Taxes,
Climate,
Taxes
Smarter taxes on energy and emissions to reduce public deficits As European governments desperately try to plug public deficits, restore competitiveness, employment and growth, the tendency would seem to be towards less environmental policies. What if more environmental protection and putting a price on pollution
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