This is why there is no international standard on tax evasion or tax competition along the lines of international standards on bank regulation or fighting financial crime.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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Tax competition is the only force working on the side of taxpayers, which explains the organized campaign by global elite to defeat it.
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Yankowski asserted that he didn't believe the recent U.K. auction of five 3G licenses would wind up becoming a hidden tax on the consumer, or even a constraint on competition.
But at the same time he wants to set up international tribunals to rule on unfair tax competition, for example, or health standards.
More than 99 percent of my time on this issue is consumed by the difficult task of trying to convince policy makers that tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy should be celebrated rather than persecuted.
The government will find it easier to plump for Ms Barker's less controversial recommendations, such as a windfall profits tax on land developers, encouraging greater competition among housebuilders and dealing with the skills shortage in construction.
Over the years, tax competition among governments has led to lower tax rates on personal and corporate income, as well as reductions in the double taxation of income that is saved and invested.
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Though greater competition puts pressure on bookies' profit margins, the increase in turnover wrought by the tax cut is more than compensating.
Services, such as health and education, will still be universal and tax-funded, but their delivery will increasingly depend on competition between providers from either the public or the private sector.
It also called for a clampdown on what it called "harmful tax competition", where member states compete with each other to provide the most benign tax environment.
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