by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
The FT’s Martin Wolf issues a stirring (well, fairly exciting) call for sensibly radical tax reform. This includes “destination-based cash flow taxation,” which promises to rebalance taxation from production to consumption. ...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
The Times of London, no enemy to money or the rich, feels compelled to clear its throat and issue a stern warning that tax dodging and avoidance is really not fair play. The Times view notes that a third of British billionaires have shifted their residence or are in...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
CapX presents five reasons Ireland should reconsider its firm position on the backstop, still a key element of Teresa May’s Brexit agreement, widely reviled by Euroskeptic Tories who claim it will keep the UK locked in a customs union with the EU indefinitely....
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Belgium’s tax on air pollution from aviation activities may provide a model for other European countries and developed nations broadly dealing with this tricky issue, according to Bill Hemings of Transport & Environment, an industry advocacy organization....
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
While burning wood instead of coal may not reduce greenhouse gases, forests are at least renewable resources, checking off one “green” item. However activists are calling for new EU-wide regulations to ensure that the forests which produce wood used for...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
European efforts to develop a common integrated defense structure, or “Army,” face a number of challenges including the imminent departure from the EU of the UK, its biggest military power. However the basic goals of the Common Defense and Security...