The Triumph of Injustice - How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
Verlag | Norton |
Auflage | 2019 |
Seiten | 232 |
Format | 15,4 x 23,5 x 2,2 cm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1324002727 |
EAN | 9781324002727 |
Bestell-Nr | 32400272UA |
Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionised the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fuelled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry and, most critically, tax competition between nations.
It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalised world.