Tax Avoidance ("Dodging") by rich companies, especially digital ones like Google, Apple, Amazon, is frequently brought up as both a clear injustice and something that, if corrected, would make a real difference to reducing inequality.[^1]
This issue is about getting the data together on this issue.
How much money would we gain by stopping tax avoidance
How much money would we gain by stopping tax "dodging"? (And who is we?)
Conversely, how much is it costing countries whether that's e.g. the UK or the US or developing countries?
For example, here's a slide from a 2016 deck from Action Aid (presented at Open Knowledge co-organized open data for tax justice event) which cites "billions" for the UK and $200bn a year for developing countries
[^1]: for example, see e.g. Rutger Bregman at WEF in 2019 in a panel on the "The Cost of Inequality". https://youtu.be/GZpQcOfAHEo?t=114 "but no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance and people not paying their fair share."
Tax Avoidance ("Dodging") by rich companies, especially digital ones like Google, Apple, Amazon, is frequently brought up as both a clear injustice and something that, if corrected, would make a real difference to reducing inequality.[^1]
This issue is about getting the data together on this issue.
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How much money would we gain by stopping tax avoidance
How much money would we gain by stopping tax "dodging"? (And who is we?)
Conversely, how much is it costing countries whether that's e.g. the UK or the US or developing countries?
For example, here's a slide from a 2016 deck from Action Aid (presented at Open Knowledge co-organized open data for tax justice event) which cites "billions" for the UK and $200bn a year for developing countries
[^1]: for example, see e.g. Rutger Bregman at WEF in 2019 in a panel on the "The Cost of Inequality". https://youtu.be/GZpQcOfAHEo?t=114 "but no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance and people not paying their fair share."