Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7812500

PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.

If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      You’re not paranoid if they really are after you.

      This is why the Fediverse is so important.

      If we want to be free people, we must own our own free communication technologies

        • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          8 months ago

          That was only possible in reddit because the admins have all the power.

          In the Fediverse, they might take over the most popular instances, but a new instance can pop up anywhere.

          Decentralization is extremely powerful. Just look at the resilience of piracy, darknets and crypto. They can’t be controlled and neither can the Fediverse.

        • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Don’t you think this is a little but unrealistic? Do you really think some corporate elite is going to risk exposing their secret agenda by bribing mods to sabotage some irrelevant niche social media platform?