Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions ~enviro Article 4450 words 9 votes
US taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided US taxes ~finance business.small Article 1769 words 12 votes
Under cover of capital gains, the hyper-rich have been getting richer than we thought: the earnings of the top 0.1% grew 50% more from 1996 to 2018 than previously measured ~finance economics Article 993 words 20 votes
A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working? ~health Article 665 words, published Feb 26 2020 5 votes
Tax change in US coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds ~finance Article 881 words 14 votes
Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal ~finance economics Article 1109 words 6 votes
Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal ~finance economics Article 1101 words 11 votes
Denmark needs to adopt a number of emergency measures, including higher carbon taxes, if it's to reach a goal of drastically cutting emissions by 2030 ~enviro climate change Link 4 votes
How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms? ~life relationships Article 2180 words 6 votes
TurboTax and others charged at least fourteen million Americans for tax prep that should have been free, audit finds ~finance Article 1046 words 19 votes
Danish police seize Hyde Park mansion owned by Sanjay Shah, British businessman accused of defrauding Danish taxpayers ~finance Article 581 words 6 votes
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. ~finance business Article 7164 words 21 votes
Inside TurboTax’s twenty-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free ~finance Article 7022 words 16 votes
Examination of Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including 91 that paid no federal taxes at all ~finance business Article 14 244 words 9 votes
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful? ~finance Article 6563 words 10 votes
US Trade Representative investigation concludes that France's Digital Services Tax discriminates against US companies, proposes retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on French products ~finance Article 416 words 7 votes
Norwegians are eating less sugar than at any time in the last forty-four years – annual consumption per person has fallen by more than 1kg a year since 2000 ~food diet Article 516 words 12 votes
Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians ~finance business Link 4 votes
The great American tax haven: Why the super-rich love South Dakota ~finance Article 4661 words 7 votes
Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones ~health Article 832 words, published Feb 14 2017 11 votes
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform ~life education Article 888 words 6 votes
The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise ~health healthcare Article 870 words 10 votes
Pete Buttigieg’s climate vision: Local fixes for a planet in crisis ~enviro climate change Article 5 votes
Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to ~finance Article 1249 words, published Aug 5 2019 12 votes
Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan? ~finance Article 1044 words, published Sep 27 2019 14 votes
US President Donald Trump’s legal immunity has a countdown clock ~misc politics Article 543 words 9 votes
IRS: Sorry, but it’s just easier and cheaper to audit the poor ~finance Article 527 words, published Oct 2 2019 17 votes
Elizabeth Warren's new remedy for US corruption: A tax on lobbying ~misc politics Article 989 words 21 votes
Germany’s North Channel Bank has been fined 110 million Danish crowns by a court in Denmark for its involvement in a dividend stripping scheme ~finance banking Article 62 words 5 votes
'The men who plundered Europe': Bankers on trial for siphoning €60bn ~finance banking Article 1449 words 10 votes
Productions that could have taken advantage of Swedish locations and craft expertise continue to run away to foreign locations for lower costs and tax incentives ~movies Article 1102 words 4 votes
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy ~finance economics business Article 2166 words 5 votes
Square wants to be a bank but doesn’t want to be taxed like one ~finance banking business Article 57 words, published Sep 12 2019 15 votes
Finland's new government will propose a tax increase later this year on fossil fuel used for transport ~enviro Article 6 votes
Walmart dodged up to $2.6 billion in US tax through a “fictitious” Chinese entity, former executive says ~finance business Article 3046 words 13 votes
Sweden to introduce bank tax to help fund greater defense spending from 2022 ~finance banking Article 294 words 8 votes
Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities ~games Article 3006 words 22 votes
Solar brings in the big bucks for local governments ~enviro energy.renewable Article 493 words, published Jul 30 2019 4 votes