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Taxing issue
2017-11-10 13:35:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Paradise Papers have show how attractive it is to keep money offshore, but why have authorities failed to stop such activities?
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Apple tax case: Ireland's other taxing issue
2016-09-06 20:01:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Ireland's Apple tax case has made headlines around the world, but there is another slow-burning tax issue which is causing growing anger in the country.
A taxing situation
2016-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Monthly: Since late-December, we have been following the grassroots effort in Washington state to implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax to reduce emissions. This effort has run into a number of setbacks, largely stemming from a failure to attract vocal support from conservatives and Republicans, despite the marketing of the proposal as the best way to overcome the states partisan divide on climate. The carbon-tax effort has also struggled to attract support from progressives and Democrats, who are concerned...
Its time to talk about taxing oil
2016-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: By the standards of the old adage politics is the art of the possible President Obamas proposal to levy a $10 per barrel fee on oil production and imports is not very politic. But it is very good policy. The White House said on Thursday that it had included the fee in its budget proposal to Congress. The administration would use the $32 billion the tax would raise to invest in mass transit, high-speed rail and research into clean energy and self-driving cars. Of course, the Republicans who...
Let's just give up on taxing big corporations
2015-10-10 07:23:54| Beverages - Topix.net
If Fortune 500 companies paid a mere 6 percent on their offshore profits -- about as much as they pay, on average, outside the U.S. -- they'd owe $620 billion in additional federal taxes, says a report published this week by Citizens for Tax Justice. That would be enough to finance the entire U.S. federal education expenditure for more than five years.
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