The Resource The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens, Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens, Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
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- Summary
- We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world's wealth hidden in tax havens--in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands--this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world's assets are currently hidden--until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world's money held in tax havens. And it's staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His reasearch reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%--there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well as the counterargument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In [this book], he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman's work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world's assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. -- Inside jacket flaps
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 129 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: acting against tax havens
- A century of offshore finance
- The missing wealth of nations
- Mistakes
- What to do?: a new approach
- The tax avoidance of multinational corporations
- Isbn
- 9780226245423
- Label
- The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens
- Title
- The hidden wealth of nations
- Title remainder
- the scourge of tax havens
- Statement of responsibility
- Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world's wealth hidden in tax havens--in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands--this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world's assets are currently hidden--until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world's money held in tax havens. And it's staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His reasearch reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%--there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well as the counterargument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In [this book], he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman's work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world's assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. -- Inside jacket flaps
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
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- Zucman, Gabriel
- Dewey number
- 336.24/16
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the French
- LC call number
- HJ2336
- LC item number
- .Z8313 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Fagan, Teresa Lavender
- Piketty, Thomas
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Tax havens
- Tax evasion
- Paradis fiscaux
- Impôt sur la fortune
- Evasion fiscale
- Mouvements de capitaux
- Fraude fiscale
- Monde
- Tax evasion
- Tax havens
- Steuerflucht
- Steueroase
- Steuerpolitik
- Skattebrott
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofforeword
- SaOD5M9xJFA
- Label
- The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens, Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: acting against tax havens -- A century of offshore finance -- The missing wealth of nations -- Mistakes -- What to do?: a new approach -- The tax avoidance of multinational corporations
- Control code
- ocn907206174
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 129 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226245423
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2015019946
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025575749
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780226245423
- (OCoLC)907206174
- Label
- The hidden wealth of nations : the scourge of tax havens, Gabriel Zucman ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: acting against tax havens -- A century of offshore finance -- The missing wealth of nations -- Mistakes -- What to do?: a new approach -- The tax avoidance of multinational corporations
- Control code
- ocn907206174
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 129 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226245423
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2015019946
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025575749
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780226245423
- (OCoLC)907206174
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