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NPR
On today's show, how something as simple as a sandwich sales tax ends up a complicated list of definitions, exemptions and confusion. And what that tells us about the tax code in general.
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ICIJ
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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Independent
Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Alphabet (Google) and Goldman Sachs all implicated in Oxfam report
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Finance Magnates
In light of the Coinbase case, expert Perry Woodin explains how the American tax system needs to deal with Bitcoin.
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CBC
The Canada Revenue Agency is scrutinizing the Facebook pages and other social media posts of people it believes are at "high risk" of cheating on their taxes. It's also rapidly expanding its use of cutting-edge big data techniques for everything from improving customer service to deciding who to audit.
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Canada Revenue Agency
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Wall Street Journal
With the deficit projected to hit 5% of GDP in only a decade, the choice is either spending cuts or tax hikes.
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KPMG
KPMG looks ahead to 2025 to consider how changes in behaviours, the economy and technology are likely to impact the future of Australia’s tax system.
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NPR
The tricks and mind games tax collectors use to get people to pay up.
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Tax Justice Network
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Investor Place
The U.S. tops the list -- but it's more complicated than that. It's more a function of how big America's economy is. Still, the problem is huge.
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Fortune
The premise of fairness doesn't hold up.
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Korea Times
Korea takes first step to introduce 'robot tax'
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Stratfor
After lingering on the European Union's back burner for years, reform debates are finally poised to become the bloc's main focus. And some of its most powerful leaders are starting to make their preparations.
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The Guardian
The automation revolution will cost jobs and cause massive unrest. Those affected must be supported, writes Gaby Hinsliff
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Global Policy Journal
Zbigniew Dumienski and Nicholas Ross Smith argue that the seemingly unstoppable rise of cryptocurrencies could precipitate a shift in the taxations systems of developed states across the globe towards land taxation. Rather than being calamitous, this would be a more progressive source of revenue than the current reliance on incomes, consumption, and businesses.
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The Economist
Today’s tax systems are unforgivably cack-handed
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Business Insider
The UK said it would introduce a digital services tax that would drastically increase big tech firms' taxes.
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Deloitte
Industry 4.0 is here and impacting everything a business does. That also means that companies and governments must devise tax plans that can be as nimble as the new technology.
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Deloitte
The tax function is no longer all about compliance. Cognitive technologies and digital models are driving big changes in how tax leaders are looking ahead.
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Vox
Sanders’s campaign is calling for a public credit registry, where you can get your credit score for free.
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Propublica
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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The Economist
Some economists are reconsidering their aversion to levies on large fortunes
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South China Morning Post
Researchers involved in project say it will make it almost impossible to avoid detection, while the current fragmented system is easier to get around.
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Huffington Post
The country is being run by an unfettered class of superpredators. It's time we started treating them that way.
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MIT Technology Review
Deep reinforcement learning has trained AIs to beat humans at complex games like Go and StarCraft. Could it also do a better job at running the economy?
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VICE News
The American tax code is one of the most impenetrable elements of our society. Surprising, considering how it affects your life every single day. On this epi...
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Forbes
Tax and legal professionals today face increasing complexity, risk, and ambiguity as technology, regulatory and business transformation converge.
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AccountancyAge
VP of Strategy at Sovos, Christiaan van der Valk, argues that the digital age is changing the role of tax auditors, not rendering them obsolete.
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The Guardian
It reuses waste and prevents the release of a potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. But Australias biogas pioneers are going it alone
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Inc42
DPIIT has proposed relaxations in the income tax act to promote budding entrepreneurs under the ‘Startup India Vision 2024
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Canadian Accountant
Preparing tax returns and providing financial advice is the second most popular side hustle of Canadians, threatening professional accountants like CPAs.
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Accounting Today
The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging taxpayers to file their taxes electronically during the three-month extension period for this year’s tax season.
