Alex Cobham

@alexcobham
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Chief exec @taxjusticenet. Commissioner @povinequalscot. Opinions mine. #Palma inequality. Books: The Uncounted (Polity Press); Estimating IFFs (OUP). He/him.

Researchers estimate that if the top 1% of Americans paid the full amount of taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion a year.

That’s just UNPAID taxes. Not new or higher taxes.

How about we make them pay their fair share and use the money to invest in the American people?

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I’m SO excited to announce this FREE online summit on Feb 28th 11am AST with @[email protected] & @[email protected]

Register : http://bit.ly/taxblacklist

Come armed with your questions for these gentlemen who know everything worth knowing about what’s really going on with tax Blacklists

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Marladukharan/status/1620468119763566593

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NEW: Are Black taxpayers more likely to be audited than non-Black taxpayers? We analyze 148MM returns + 780K audits; find yes, 3-5x more likely. Why?

(Joint work w/ @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], & Tom Hertz & Robin Fisher @ Treasury. Opinions our own.)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hselzayn/status/1620170546955845632

Hadi Elzayn on Twitter

“NEW: Are Black taxpayers more likely to be audited than non-Black taxpayers? We analyze 148MM returns + 780K audits; find yes, 3-5x more likely. Why? (Joint work w/ @jacobsgoldin, @DanHo1, @evelyn_a_smith, @_ArunRamesh, & Tom Hertz & Robin Fisher @ Treasury. Opinions our own.)”

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EU on track to "avoid" a technical recession thanks to the perverse effects of distorted Irish GDP figures

(which are due to fake economic activity from tax dodging multinationals) https://twitter.com/fwred/status/1620372986800001025

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/leo_axt/status/1620403976087932932

Frederik Ducrozet on Twitter

“🇪🇺 Euro area Q4 real GDP growth = +0.12% QoQ 🇮🇪 Without Ireland = -0.02% QoQ”

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“EU on track to "avoid" a technical recession thanks to the perverse effects of distorted Irish GDP figures (which are due to fake economic activity from tax dodging multinationals)”

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@[email protected] * not sad. Keeping the Square Mile clean would be a much more benevolent proposition than keeping global money dirty...

Sad to see what Brexit has done to the great institution that brought you centuries of undemocratic engagement in Westminster, and a leading role in the world's three imperial ages of illicit financial flows...

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Low headline tax rates on business over the last 10 yrs hasn't led to greater business investment or growth.

What we need is proper investment in people and infrastructure. We should be taxing wealth more to support this.

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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/robertnpalmer/status/1620068013671329792

Robert Palmer on Twitter

“Low headline tax rates on business over the last 10 yrs hasn't led to greater business investment or growth. What we need is proper investment in people and infrastructure. We should be taxing wealth more to support this. Me on @TalkTV”

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Wishing among other things that the publication of my book The Uncounted hadn't been followed quite so closely by a global event demonstrating a key part of the argument so terribly...

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Opinion: Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come https://trib.al/T81LccX

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1620036806551945216

Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come

Missing data on race and ethnicity has been an issue throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. How bad has the problem been? Far beyond bad.

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Undersøgelse af BBC's dækning af skat finder bl.a. bias der støtter skattelettelser og skævhed i kilder. Mon ikke samme kunne dokumenteres i #dkmedier, hvor de der lover guld og grønne skove gennem skattelettelser til de rige og selskaber får enorm taletid og sjældent udfordres. https://twitter.com/alexcobham/status/1620078596235874309

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ChrHallum/status/1620119062532730881

Alex Cobham @[email protected] on Twitter

“Kudos to the BBC for examining its own output on fiscal policy for bias - but the findings are concerning”

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