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“So what [the U.S. authorities] are doing, basically, is trying to undermine the whole structure [of the global deal],” Parrinello said. “They want to destroy a global tax deal that would enable other countries to set up any minimum tax that is not aligned with their interest.”

The challenge of billionaires continuing to dodge taxes was the main conclusion of the international conference held in Paris on 8-9 April.

Parrinello argues not to respond with tariffs, but to attack their weakest point: the techno-oligarchs that surround them. ‘You have to design the response in a way that captures the profits, the rents of these people's companies, rather than the prices of what they sell,’ he says.

The world's billionaires are still largely untaxed, paradoxically paying less tax than the majority of other taxpayers. These were the findings of an international conference held in Paris on 8 and 9 April.

«Je pense qu’il y a un problème d’évasion fiscale des milliardaires en France, comme dans l’ensemble des économies mondiales.» La phrase n’est pas d’un élu de gauche mais de David Amiel, normalien, député macroniste et ancien conseiller politique du chef de l’État...

At a conference in Paris on 8 and 9 April, the idea of taxing billionaires brought together elected representatives from all sides of the political spectrum, despite differences of opinion on the details. Between tax justice and economic fears, the debate is intensifying in the face of budgetary...

In an exchange with woxx at the end of last year, Quentin Parrinello, Director of Public Policy at the EU Tax Observatory, explained this difficulty by the mechanism preventing multinationals from minimising their taxes by transferring their profits to tax havens.

We need taxes on the American oligarchs close to Trump. We need to target the most powerful and the wealthiest. This is the United States' weak point. States must heavily tax the big American multinationals and their owners, particularly in tech.

Taxer les usages de pesticides dans les produits d’importation, à l’image de la taxe carbone aux frontières de l’Union européenne (UE), qui devrait entrer en vigueur en 2026 ? C’est la piste explorée par une note de l’Observatoire européen de la fiscalité...

Estamos a lidar com uma crise sem precedentes e isso requer pensar fora da caixa. Não vamos resolver as crises de hoje apenas com os instrumentos habituais. Precisamos de dinheiro numa dimensão de que nunca precisámos antes. Não só para a defesa, mas para garantir que os fundos para a defesa não...