Tax avoidance is the current front line in the struggle for a new politics of redistribution.
Cammaerts, B.
(28 May 2013)
Tax avoidance is the current front line in the struggle for a new politics of redistribution.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
(28 May 2013)
Tax avoidance is the current front line in the struggle for a new politics of redistribution.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
Recent weeks have seen the tax avoidance of large multinationals such as Google and Apple brought into sharp relief, with their executives claiming that these companies pay the amount of tax that they are legally obligated to. In the wake of a European Council summit which focused on tax evasion, Bart Cammaerts argues that governments and political elites are largely complicit in enabling tax avoidance through creating loopholes and not enforcing regulations.