Avoidance
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Beyond increased taxation of rents and estates, policymakers should pursue cooperative efforts to stem corporate tax avoidance, tax inversions, and the use of tax shelters.
By advancing globalization – by forcing ever-more openness down the people’s throat – they have accumulated massive wealth, which they then protect through tax avoidance, offshoring, and other schemes.
On the contrary, we should expect agreement only on the path of least political resistance:
avoidance
of tough fiscal choices until the bond vigilantes eventually wake up, spike long rates, and force fiscal adjustment on the political system.
From carbon dioxide and Internet governance to depleted ocean fisheries and corporate tax avoidance, many of the world’s problems today are innately transnational.
In order to reduce incentives for
avoidance
and thus augment revenues, Congress also wants to cap the GST at 18%.
Another global challenge is taxation, which requires international coordination to stanch rampant
avoidance
and evasion.
The ECB’s insistence on “voluntary” restructuring – that is,
avoidance
of a credit event – has placed the two sides at loggerheads.
Rather, it is the prerequisite without which superior goals – rapprochement with the United States, legitimization of Syria’s special status in Lebanon, and
avoidance
of a potentially devastating war with Israel if the Golan Heights are not recovered by peaceful means – cannot be attained.
We must end the current practice of blindly lowering taxes, creating loopholes that allow legal tax avoidance, and offering tax credits that have little effect on investment and job creation.
Whether US investors had greater expertise in banking in emerging markets may be debatable; that they had greater expertise in tax
avoidance
is not.
Through all of this, governments have strengthened bank regulation only slightly, leaving key issues like liquidity creation, exposure to derivatives, and tax
avoidance
largely unaddressed.
A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict controls on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax
avoidance.
The most straightforward ripoff is state-tolerated tax
avoidance.
Last year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released information about Luxembourg’s tax rulings that exposed the scale of tax
avoidance
and evasion.
Low debt and high liquidity should be valued for
avoidance
of cash-flow distress, ensuring greater flexibility in adjusting asset allocation, and creating opportunities in the aftermath of a crisis.
From this simple chain of logic follows the conclusion that we have a moral obligation to tax our superrich at the peak of the Laffer Curve: to tax them so heavily that we raise the most possible money from them – to the point beyond which their diversion of energy and enterprise into tax
avoidance
and sheltering would mean that any extra taxes would not raise but reduce revenue.
A lower rate would strengthen incentives for investment and job creation in the US, and weaken incentives for tax
avoidance.
The list of common behaviors associated with the disorder gave him pause: fear of eating alone in restaurants,
avoidance
of public toilets, and concern about trembling hands.
But the charges against Khodorkovsky are as flimsy as they are tendentious: the privatization case had been amicably settled previously, and Khodorkovsky has merely used tax
avoidance
schemes that are commonplace in Russia--and that have been upheld in court.
The IMF dithers - After Mexico’s collapse, talk about “crisis avoidance” and “enhanced surveillance” yielded only that, talk.
This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax
avoidance
and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.
Globalization may also facilitate legal tax
avoidance.
Opponents of estate taxes offer three reasons why they could dampen economic growth: entrepreneurs will be reluctant to expand their companies if they cannot leave their wealth to their children; small firms will risk collapse when their owners die if their heirs cannot pay the taxes; and companies will flee to lower-tax jurisdictions or engage in costly and unproductive tax
avoidance.
The estimated worldwide market for such vehicles is in the range of $1 trillion, and their use would erode the scheduled domestic airline customer base by enabling 300 kilometer “commutes” and providing huge cost
avoidance
for roads and bridges.
And why was the victor somebody who made his living from taking advantage of others, openly admitted not paying his fair share of taxes, and made tax
avoidance
a point of pride?
Risks are normally mitigated through avoidance, hedging, insurance, and diversification.
But the Chinese and US economies are both too big and too interconnected to fail, making
avoidance
and hedging far too dangerous and costly.
Civilians may not be targeted; the principle of proportionality requires the
avoidance
of excessive force in pursuing a legitimate military objective; and prisoners must be treated humanely.
Lastly, the international community should vigorously pursue efforts to police tax
avoidance
and capital flight, both of which erode states’ revenue base.
That phone call violated a protocol –
avoidance
of direct contact between the US and Taiwan at the presidential level – that American presidents from both parties have carefully observed for four decades.
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