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November 11, 2017 01:23 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CMQm16wZJUk/double-irish-sandwich.html
Excellent, plain-language explainer on corporate and 1 percenter tax evasion, with a simple solution
The New York Times has collaborated with Berkeley economics prof Gabriel Zucman to produce an interactive explainer that walks through the baroque tax-evasion strategies deployed by multinationals like Google and Apple, as well as the super-rich, using plain language and explanatory graphics to get past the deliberately eye-glazing tedium of these arrangements, a shield of boringness that has allowed the super-rich to hide $8.7 trillion from tax authorities while taking advantage of national courts, education, roads, police, and health care. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CMQm16wZJUk/double-irish-sandwich.html
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