Zorka Milin
@zorkamilin
Lawyer and whatnot, tweeting on tax, corruption, climate and energy. Policy director @FACTCoalition, but own views here. Happy to help. 🌎🌏🌍
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22-03-2014 00:12:39
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Today Treasury Department issued new rules to guard against money-laundering, including in the U.S. real estate market – so that law-abiding homebuyers are not disadvantaged.
"Just as the democratic world once built an international anti-communist alliance, so can the US and its allies build an international anti-corruption alliance, organised around the idea of transparency, accountability and fairness." Anne Applebaum in Financial Times 💯
"It would be crazy if American businesses are paying taxes in France that otherwise they would have been paying here." 💯 Sen. Mark Warner America's failure to tax the booming profits of its own multinational corporations is the definition of insanity Great piece Chris Cioffi
The US business tax system favors big multinational corporations, and small businesses know it. New Small Business Majority poll: more than 3/4 of those polled agree that large corporations unfairly leverage their foreign presence to reduce their US tax liability smallbusinessmajority.org/sites/default/…
The Irish tax haven is alive & well, after various Irish, US and int'l tax reforms. Remains to be seen if latest round of OECD reforms (#Pillar2) will make a difference. Striking stats via Gabriel Zucman, timely given looming ECJ decision in the massive Apple-Ireland tax case.
We FACT Coalition support the #TaxJustice day during this Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future. As our Ian Gary put it with David Waskow, "Fair tax systems are vital for strong climate action" thehill.com/opinion/energy…