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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the 42nd edition of our Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. It’s produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and is available for listeners to download. Any radio station is welcome to broadcast it for free and websites are also welcome to share it. You can join

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Those of us who have been writing about the federal budgets for too long remember the sad history of presidents trotting out wildly optimistic economic assumptions to explain away growing deficits and debt. It was a tried-and-true way to hide their unwillingness to pay for ambitious spending with too little tax revenue. Former

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In February last year, we published the 2021 edition of our Financial Secrecy Index, a global ranking of countries most complicit in helping individuals hide their finances from the rule of law. The index grades each country’s legal and financial system with a secrecy score out of 100 where a zero out of 100 is full transparency and a

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Our kids finish their school year in two weeks. And after a year of instruction that was either remote, in-person, or a mix of both, they look forward to summer vacation and then to September, when public school will feel more “normal.”  But they may have fewer classmates. Here in Michigan, public school

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Of the many tax policies modeled in our new Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, repealing the tariffs imposed under President Trump’s administration would be one of the simplest ways policymakers could boost economic growth. Starting in 2018, the U.S. imposed tariffs on a variety of goods, including aluminum, solar panels, steel,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In a recent report that reviews inheritance taxation in OECD countries, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) concludes that inheritance taxes could play a key role in reducing inequality while increasing countries’ tax revenues. When analyzing the wealth distribution in 27 OECD countries, the report finds that in 2015, on average,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The single biggest change in a century to international tax rules will be discussed this weekend at an annual meeting of the G7 – a club of the world’s seven largest economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. The G7 will seek an agreement on implementing a global minimum