Tag: Multinational Corporations

Tax Havens

$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

(The Conversation) – About a decade ago, the world’s biggest economies agreed to crack down on multinational corporations’ abusive use of tax havens. This resulted in a 15-point action plan that aimed to curb practices that shielded a large chunk of corporate profits from tax authorities.

But, according to our estimates, it hasn’t worked. Instead of reining in the use of tax havens – countries such as the Bahamas and Cayman Islands with very low or no effective tax rates – the problem has only gotten worse.

Source: $1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

Capitalism

The Capitalist Road to Serfdom

Walk into a Bank or BHP and you won’t find Democracy or individuals but we nevertheless support them.

By design, the corporation is not a democratic enterprise. Its management is hierarchical, its imperatives are growth and profit, and its structure is a de facto class system of owners, managers, and workers. You could argue that in the earliest days of capitalism, something like the concept of free enterprise actually existed: firms of various sizes competed, with even the largest dwarfed in both size and influence by most nation states. Today, the world’s biggest companies not only wield monopolistic power and exert considerable political influence, but in many cases have market capitalizations exceeding the GDPs of entire countries.

Source: The Capitalist Road to Serfdom

ATO

As HSBC shows, we’ve been timid and pathetic in dealing with tax dodgers. The ATO allows corporations to self audit pay as much as you see fit. Is that fair?

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As HSBC shows, we’ve been timid and pathetic in dealing with tax dodgers | Prem Sikka | Comment is free | The Guardian.