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Briefing paper

A European agenda to tax the super-rich: A solution to inequality in the European Union

09/10/2025

2 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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Europe faces a deep inequality crisis: the richest 1% in the EU own nearly a quarter of all wealth while half the population shares just 3%. Decades of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations resulted in the super-rich paying proportionally less taxes than ordinary citizens, eroding fairness, democracy, and social cohesion. The EU lacks […]

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Research report

Capital Gains Taxes and Indirect Offshore Transfers

22/07/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Efforts by multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes in developing countries have a big impact on the ability of those countries to provide public services to their population. The report focuses into a technique utilized to avoid Capital Gains Tax – called Offshore Indirect Transfers – and looks into seven distinct concrete cases that resulted […]

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Discussion paper

British-Based Corporations and the Tax ‘Race to the Bottom’

02/10/2019

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past 20 years, many of the large corporations listed on the London Stock Exchange have paid tax at rates significantly lower than headline rates in many countries around the world. This often means that governments have less funding to provide public services and to reduce poverty. The picture is complex – the ‘race […]

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Briefing note

Stopping the Scandals: Five ways governments can end tax avoidance

08/11/2017

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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When global corporations and the super-rich use tax havens to avoid paying their fair share, it is the poorest countries and people who lose most. The Paradise Papers show that tax havens continue to do a roaring trade, despite government promises to clamp down on tax dodging. This briefing lists five actions governments can take […]

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Briefing note

Ending the Tax Scandals: Five actions the UK government can take to tackle tax avoidance

07/11/2017

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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When corporations and individuals get away with not paying their fair share of tax, it is poor countries which have the most to lose. Governments are robbed of vital revenue and poor people are left trapped in poverty, while those with the power to avoid paying taxes grow ever richer – leading to spiralling inequality. […]

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Briefing paper

Making Tax Vanish: How the practices of consumer goods MNC RB show that the international tax system is broken

13/07/2017

3 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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Big business is able to take advantage of loopholes in global tax laws and avoid tax on a massive scale. This deprives governments around the world of the money they need to tackle poverty and inequality. It means there is less for them to invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report examines the failings […]

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A European agenda to tax the super-rich: A solution to inequality in the European Union

Capital Gains Taxes and Indirect Offshore Transfers

British-Based Corporations and the Tax ‘Race to the Bottom’

Stopping the Scandals: Five ways governments can end tax avoidance

Ending the Tax Scandals: Five actions the UK government can take to tackle tax avoidance

Making Tax Vanish: How the practices of consumer goods MNC RB show that the international tax system is broken