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📢 Following our transition from EUTO to ITO, we’re excited to share that our website has moved to a new address.
🔗 Visit us here: taxobservatory.world
We invite you to explore, bookmark the new link, and stay connected for updates.
International Tax Observatory
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International Tax Observatory
@taxobservatory
Independent research lab focusing on #taxation, corporate tax avoidance, tax evasion, and solutions to these issues. Directed by @gabriel_zucman
- 🚨Tax evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice. Today, we publish our first Global #TaxEvasionReport An unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade. 📄bitly.ws/Y5Ks
- 🔵How much taxes do billionaires really pay? In our first Global #TaxEvasionReport we dedicate an entire section to unpacking why billionaires pay less taxes than ordinary citizens – and how we can change this. 🧵A thread👇
00:00 - Excited to present our first study! "Collecting the tax deficit of multinationals: Simulations for the European Union" Key finding: the European Union would collect €170 billion / year with a 25% minimum tax. taxobservatory.eu/wp-content/upl…
- "Billionaires are very good at structuring their wealth so that it generates little (sometimes zero) taxable income. This is why taxing their income is not enough. We need a wealth tax on billionaires." 🗣️:@gabriel_zucman at the EU Tax Symposium #TaxMix50
- 👋 Say hello to the EU TAX Observatory, an independent, non-partisan and objective economic #researchlaboratory working on #taxevasion and #taxexile in the #EU! Created in March ‘21, co-funded by the EU, hosted at @PSEinfo, directed by @gabriel_zucman. #taxjustice #EUTAX
- Our Global #TaxEvasionReport relies on innovative analysis based on newly accessible tax data. 🔴Today we are proud to announce the publication of our Atlas of the #OffshoreWorld a new database of up-to-date, country-by-country statistics we used to build the report.
- 🗣️"Tax Evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice". Last week our Global #TaxEvasionReport was featured in more than 150 newspapers, radios and TVs accross 40 countries. If you have not read it yet : taxobservatory.eu/publication/gl…
- Meet our director @gabriel_zucman. Gabriel‘s research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macro-distributional implications of globalization. In his books, he writes about social inequality and tax havens.
- 💥Congratulations to EU Tax Observatory’s Director @gabriel_zucman on winning the 2023 John Bates Clark medal. The award recognises his fundamental contribution to the field of public economics and especially on tax evasion and on economic inequality. 🌐 cutt.ly/Gabriel-Zucman…
- Our annual conference in Brussels has started with an opening statement from @gabriel_zucman The most crucial challenges consist of 3 points: - improve the design of intl corporate #taxation - fight against tax evasion - find new ways of attaining effective tax progressivity
- ❓To what extent are banks still present in tax havens? How did their presence change since the introduction of CbCR requirements? What amount of revenue can countries in Europe collect when a minimum tax rate is introduced? Read our new report here 👇 taxobservatory.eu/have-european-…
- 🔵Multinational companies keep shifting profits to tax havens despite major reforms. In our #TaxEvasionReport we estimate that $1 trillion was moved offshore in 2022 – 35% of multinationals’ foreign profits. This shifting reduces global corporate tax revenues by 10%.
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