Assessing Tax Expenditure Reporting in G20 and OECD Economies
Tom Neubig and
Agustin Redonda | 6 November 2018
Fiscal,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
G20,
OECD,
Tax Expenditures Governments worldwide pursue public policy objectives through direct spending and tax expenditures (TEs). Interestingly though, and despite their significant impact on government budgets, TEs are opaque and very often not subject to the same level of scrutiny in the budget process as direct spending. This
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The Sunday Program: International Tax Cooperation in the G20
Agustin Redonda | 20 July 2018
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
G20,
Tax Competition,
Tax Expenditures Christine Lagarde suggested in a recent IMF Blog that G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors should concentrate their efforts on three fields when they meet in Buenos Aires on Sunday: global trade, emerging market vulnerabilities, and the impact of technology on jobs. International tax
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Asia’s Poor Increase by One-Billion Overnight
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 16 September 2014
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
G20,
IMF,
Poverty,
Trade,
WTO The news has been exceptionally bad recently: carnage in the Middle East, race riots in the US, ongoing recession in the Eurozone and Japan, tension in the South China Sea, high youth unemployment virtually everywhere, the Ebola epidemic and so on and so depressingly forth.
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“What’s it for?” – Moral responsibility in an age of globalization
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 2 December 2012
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Financial Markets,
G20,
WTO Several years ago, I was approached by an Indian student following a lecture I had given on globalization and the interdependence of markets through cross-border flows of goods, services, ideas, knowledge, science and people. His question was: “But what’s it for?” In the late 20th/early
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Resisting the perils of protectionism
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 31 July 2012
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
G20,
Protectionism,
WTO We live in highly perilous times. The resurgence of protectionism and the breakdown of the tenuous global trade peace represent some of the greatest perils. On the basis of current trends, such an outcome seems inevitable. It is simply a question of when. While alarmists
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