Challenge Proposal Since the first G20 summit in 2008, G20 leaders have given growing support to reforming international taxation by addressing national tax base erosion, corporate profit shifting, and deficiencies in the tax policy and administration of developing countries. In 2012, several transatlantic scandals exposing the tax avoidance … Read more
Challenge Proposal When G20 leaders meet in Buenos Aires, they will again discuss improving fairness in the international taxation system. As host, Argentina will focus on opportunities and challenges due to technological change and digitalisation. Its summit will seek to fight tax avoidance and evasion, work towards implementing … Read more
We propose to institute a new annual tax of 0.2% on corporations’ stock shares for all publicly listed companies headquartered in G20 countries. As the G20 stock market capitalization is around US$ 90 trillion, the tax would raise approximately US$ 180 billion each year. Because stock ownership is highly concentrated … Read more
Curated and produced by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Global income and wealth inequality have increased dramatically in the last decade. Public money for acutely needed action on social and environmental problems is missing. The excessive wealth concentration erodes our societies’ social contracts and challenges the independence of democratic institutions. Calls for progressive … Read more
Just and resilient societies depend on an adequate public funding base to provide important public goods, such as health care and education. The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has put a stark spotlight on this: Strong public health systems are an important pre-requisite for successfully dealing with the medical consequences of the … Read more
Just and resilient societies depend on an adequate public funding base to provide important public goods, such as health care and education. The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has put a stark spotlight on this: Strong public health systems are an important pre-requisite for successfully dealing with the medical consequences of the … Read more
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