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France, Germany led charge for new tax havens blacklist

AFP Seventeen countries led by France and Germany decided on Tuesday to draw up a new blacklist of tax havens which could include Switzerland, in a first step toward rewriting the rules of global finance. The world's 40-odd tax havens, such as the Cayman Islands and Jersey, are known hideaways for undeclared revenue and host many of the non-regulated hedge funds that came under fire following the recent financial meltdown.
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Nobelist Paul Krugman explains the financial crisis

Newsweek In an interview given to Newsweek Paul Krugman states that there is need for a big fiscal stimulus plan based on VAT tax, rather than income tax increases. The bailout should go with more conditions for the banks and America after the crisis is going to become "less exceptional and more like a normal Western country".
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France eyes local tax overhaul

Financial Times The French government is to reform the country’s system of local taxation within three years in a bid to improve the competitiveness of its business, according to the industry minister. Luc Chatel told the Financial Times that Paris would initiate an overhaul of the taxe professionnelle in the new year and aim to put the changes in place before the end of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year term, which ends in 2012.
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Despite Opting for "Change," Voters Proved Cautious on Fiscal Issues, Taxpayer Group's Analysis Finds

National Taxpayers Union Spin-meisters of both parties are already arguing about what kind of "change" Americans voted for on Tuesday, but according to a post-election analysis from the 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU), voters often chose prudent stability - not radical change - when it came to matters affecting their pocketbooks.
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What did 2007 bring in terms of fiscal reforms in Europe?

IREF asked eleven experts from the four corners of Europe to report on the main trends in their countries and neighbouring countries. This gave us the 15 reports presented in our new yearbook on taxation. We already knew what the general situation and trends are in the EU. Namely, that the EU-27 is still the region of the world with the highest fiscal burden, that situations differ greatly among EU member states (with new member countries having lower fiscal burden) and that some trends can be found in the evolution of the tax-mix with, for instance, a weak tendency to replace corporate income tax and labour tax with consumption tax. The reports presented here give life to those statistics. They reveal what were the priorities and constraints of the government in each country. They point out to the structural weaknesses of each country fiscal system and give a critical presentation of the novelty recently introduced.
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IREF's Essay Contest prize winners receive their awards in Prague

The winners of the 2007 IREF Essay Contest, Ms. Julmia Toser from Hungary and Mr. Massimiliano Trovato from Italy received their awards on official ceremony in Prague on April 18. The event was part of the Prague Conference on Political Economy (PCPE), organized by the Economics University. The two essays on the topic of European tax have been published in IREF Monographs 2008.
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United Business Media snubs UK tax regime

Richard Wray guardian.co.uk, United Business Media, the specialist publishing and events group, is abandoning the UK after 90 years to take advantage of the more favourable tax regime in Ireland. The move by the company is the second snub to the UK's tax regime in a month following the decision of drugs group Shire said to move its parent company to Ireland. Other companies including GlaxoSmithKline have also warned that the UK's business environment may not be conducive to their staying registered here.
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Why do Americans work so much more than Europeans?

Edward Prescott This paper, authored by the Nobel Prize laureate Edward Prescott, provides an interesting framework to the analyse of labour supply. Prescott compares tax systems in US and Europe and analyses the incentives that taxes create for employees to work more or less. Not surprisingly, the theoretical and empirical evidence lead to the conclusion that heavy taxes discourage Europeans and explain why do they work less than Americans.
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No gold star for Chancellor’s first Budget

by Helen Sant, Head of Tax for KPMG in Cambridge and East Anglia We knew that the Chancellor had a tough job having been rather boxed in by his predecessor's rules at a time when the economic outlook is looking distinctly unclear. The global credit crisis, a slowing economy and public finances approaching their limits made for the most difficult budget backdrop since Labour came to power.Faced with the dilemma that tax cuts would support growth but blow the fiscal rules apart, while tax increases might improve the public finances but de-rail the economy in the process, the Chancellor opted for the middle course and presented a broadly neutral budget this year.
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Still a Director’s Law?On the Political Economy of Income Redistribution

After the study of Bertrand Lemennicier, IREF invites you to discover another contribution to the controversial topic of redistribution. This paper is realized by Lars Feld, Professor of economics and Jan Schnelenbach, both from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. They revisit the well known median voter theorem and drow conclusions from new empirical evidence they gathered.
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