Taxation

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Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes…Like We Do!

Bill Gates and other wealthy individuals around the world do pay taxes–but usually at rates far below what most taxpayers pay. As Warren Buffet says, his secretary pays a higher tax rate … 184 View
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Introduction

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Introduces the reason behind this book and outlines the tax breaks given to the super wealthy and how they can nevigate around the tax regime to their benefit 8 $0.80 Add
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A Mighty Time

From: Clean Money Revolution

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A Mighty Time Early Roots The Dirty Campaign against Al Gore Sr. To the White House Door with Jimmy Carter Dark Money: Lewis Powell’s Legacy A 500-Year Calling Q&A with Don Shaffer ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Fiscal Epidemic

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Looks at the history of fiscal crises to analyze how the current situation accounts for an epidemic with new means of communication and globalization. Looks at the ineffectiveness of tax systems … 44 $4.40 Add
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Tax Breaks for Multinationals

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 2 of this book looks at the detaxation of multinational corporations. Showcases that advocates for this note that it does not adversely affect the country’s public finances, here … 19 $1.90 Add
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What’s Been Happening to Canada’s Middle Class?

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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Historically, Canada’s middle class has expected increasing prosperity from one generation to the next. Real hourly wages did grow strongly until 1981, when inflation control became the … 29 $2.90 Add
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Haven for the Rich, Hell for the Rest of Us

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 3 examines tax havens. New means of communication and greater capital mobility help taxpayers easily get around the principle of tax residence by establishing (or pretending to establish) … 24 $2.40 Add
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Inequality at the Top

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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The income share of Canada’s top earners has risen sharply since the 1980s, as balanced growth has been replaced by accelerated income growth for the top 1%, and relative income stagnancy … 30 $3.00 Add
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Inequality from the Bottom Up

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … 23 $2.30 Add
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Shopping Without Borders

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places … 11 $1.10 Add
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Private Foundations (aka Charity for the Rich)

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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In Chapter 5, I look at private foundations. Contrary to popular belief, private foundations are not a good deal for public finances in the short or the medium term. A foundation has to spend … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Moving Picture of Incomes

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … 20 $2.00 Add
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Carbon Pricing

Economists vs. the Public Interest

From: The Big Stall

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Reviews competing economic theories about tackling pollution. Explains Edmund Pigou’s work on "externalities" and neo-liberal ideas. An analysis of the two major policy proposals … 21 $2.10 Add
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Greening the Tax System

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 6 deals specifically with environmental taxation. If major fiscal reforms are to be undertaken to deal with the crisis, this could be a strategic moment to implement a green tax shift. … 28 $2.80 Add
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Inequality of Wealth

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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The inequality of wealth in Canada is far greater than the inequality of incomes — Canada’s top 40 families own more than the bottom 40% (6,186,000 households) do. For middle class … 23 $2.30 Add
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Fixing the Leaks

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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In Chapter 7, I look at a broader range of tax reform proposals to address the major sources of the tax shortfall. 21 $2.10 Add