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What is land value tax and could it fix the housing crisis?
Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say.
Taxes
The Biscay Model: innovation in taxation could advance the SDGs. An expert explains
Taxation is a powerful tool to mobilize resources, redistribute wealth and promote sustainability. We outline how the Biscay Model is advancing the SDGs.
Taxes
Here’s how rising global interest rates could impact your life
Interest rates are rising globally as countries try to slow soaring inflation in the post-pandemic economy – what will it mean for you?
Taxes
Countries agree with plan to set minimum corporate tax rate across the world
A plan brokered by the OECD has been announced for countries accounting for 90% of the global economy to set a minimum corporate tax rate of 15% across the world.
Tech for Good
This is what global tax reforms will mean for Asia's tech giants
A new set of global tax reforms will change where tech giants pay taxes, resulting in major ramifications for investments hubs across Asia like Singapore.
Taxes
How African countries can benefit from plan to reform global tax
The 2-pillar plan to reform global tax offers African governments a unique opportunity to address tax challenges from the digitalisation of economies.
Public Finance and Social Protection
What we know and what we don't know about universal basic income
Trials show how universal basic income performs in both stable and volatile settings but alternative and adjacent policy ideas need serious exploration.
Taxes
Corporate tax isn’t working – how can we fix it, globally?
Corporate tax payments will be key to post-pandemic recovery, but receipts must be shared fairly. Can the G7’s global minimum tax rate achieve this feat?
Climate Change
Addressing climate change through carbon taxes
Research shows putting a price on carbon-based fuels, in the form of carbon taxes, is an effective way of reducing GHG emissions and pollution levels.
Justice and Law
How trade-based money laundering works and its impact on world finances
Trade-based money laundering and tax evasion are big business. Although global trade complexities make tackling these crimes difficult, it's not impossible
Economic Progress
Everything you need to know about the G7’s plans for a global minimum tax
G7 Finance Ministers have backed the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%, which could form the basis of a worldwide deal.
Inequality
Building back broader: a new approach to fiscal and monetary policy
New report identifies three pathways for the transformation of fiscal and monetary policy which could foster a fairer, greener and more inclusive society.
JRS2021
What will a post-pandemic economy look like? Here's what chief economists expect
The World Economic Forum’s most-recent Chief Economists Survey show most expect a recovery of global GDP to its pre-COVID-19 level by the first half of 2022.
Global Technology Governance Summit
Zoom chief: Digital tax policy should be a 'set of carrots' not sticks
Global tax policy on digital services has to be multilateral - and more carrot than stick, Zoom's Josh Kallmer told the Global Technology Governance Summit.
Fairer Economies
Here’s a simple and fair way to end corporate tax abuse
Current proposals are complex and unequal. A minimum effective tax rate will reallocate undertaxed profits with substantial benefits for non tax-havens.
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