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Tax Evasion on Offshore Profits and Wealth

From Gabriel Zucman: This article attempts to estimate the magnitude of corporate tax avoidance and personal tax evasion through offshore tax havens. In the United States, corporations book 20% of their profits in tax havens – a tenfold increase since … Continue reading

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How Risky Are Recessions for Top Earners?

From Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan and Jae Song: Our findings suggest large differences across sectors in the cyclicality of earnings growth. While average earnings growth (across workers in all sectors) is very similar for individuals in the top 1 percent compared … Continue reading

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Migration and wage effects of taxing top earners: Evidence from the foreigners’ tax scheme in Denmark

from Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Schultz: Tax-induced international mobility of talent is a controversial public-policy issue, especially when tax rates differ substantially across countries and migration barriers are low as in the case of the EU. High top-tax … Continue reading

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