“På Socialdemokratiets årsmøde fik RUC mere opmærksomhed end Putin, houthierne og klimakrisen.” 🤗

Very interesting work by @dlangenmayr.bsky.social et al! www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Pretty balanced piece on wealth taxes but still striking how 90s-globalization-pilled a lot of policy-makers and experts are on this (whether strategically or incidentally)

Big thanks to @chathamhouse.org and Mike Higgins for publishing this interview about my forthcoming book, Existential Politics. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

“It is dishonest to call regulation censorship, especially when what is at stake is the protection of our families against fraud, disinformation and hate speech. The internet cannot be a land of lawlessness where pedophiles and abusers are given free rein to prey on our children and teenagers.”

Dybt bekymrende og problematisk at statsministeren finder det acceptabelt at angribe et dansk universitet på denne måde. Desværre i tråd med tiden.

Fabrizio Romano has got to be absolutely furious about that Trump post

Supposedly, the 28 June G7 tax 'deal' ended conflict over the global minimum tax hitting US companies. In reality, the situation now is much the same as it was before the 'deal': OECD members actively resisting US special treatment, Trump admin saber-rattling a revenge tax.

If you're around Copenhagen on 17 Sept afternoon, we're hosting a talk with Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO director and visiting prof at UCL, on the labour movement, climate change, and Trump (courtesy of @rosiecollington.bsky.social). Should be great! Details and sign-up here:

Tax administration is taxation. The hollowing out of the IRS - taking its staff and its teeth - is hollowing out the US fiscal state itself.

Bingo 2. The ACI was, quite literally, explicitly, designed to combat Trump pressure after he repeatedly threatened EU members over digital taxes during his first term. It’s deja-vu so, if not now, when?

Trump, transitions & turbulence: How can the labor movement respond to the geopolitical & climate struggles that define our era? Excited that Damon Silvers, long-time AFL-CIO policy director, will be giving a seminar at CBS next week! Please share w/ students & register here cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1303/

Bingo. There’s a playbook too: in one notable area of EU policy-making (tax), a decade’s worth of politicisation and institutional innovation has substantially eroded consensus constraints:

Worthwhile recalling that there are already section 301 investigations fully developed, just lying around, waiting for action, related exactly to European digital taxes and regulation from Trump's *first term*

Har skrevet lidt om, hvorfor det er en dårlig ide at få sin valgkamp finansieret af en af byens største udlejere. Og hvordan det ligger i forlængelse af Socialdemokratiets stadig tættere bånd til toppen af dansk erhvervsliv politiken.dk/debat/klumme...

Applicants are required to submit a 3-5 page research agenda tackling one of the above themes. Deadline is October 15th. More information here: www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

Come work with us! About as great a set-up as you could possibly ask for in a postdoc position:

Cool study. Using participation in the OECD-UN "Tax Inspectors Without Borders" programme, this paper finds tax administration quality improvements lead to more inward FDI (by curbing corruption and reducing uncertainty) doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

We’re hosting a conference next week and I am mentally preparing myself for the embarrassment of not knowing where any of the seminar rooms actually are, despite having spent literally 15 years at this institution.

We show *exactly* how - and why - what Ghosh is talking about here works in global tax governance:

🧵 1/ Over 20% of global banking debt is booked in #TaxHavens. Why do international banks rely so heavily on low-tax jurisdictions with tiny economies? Our latest Working Paper provides the first global evidence of large-scale debt shifting to avoid taxes 👇 www.taxobservatory.eu/es/publicati...

Very excited to share my new paper in Socius, "Unicorns and Hacks": Revolving Door Lobbyists and the Cultivation of Political Credibility ! And it's open access!! Many thanks to my respondents, research assistants, and colleagues for making this paper possible. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions: doi.org/10.1111/1911...

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

📣Happening NOW! A groundbreaking study on 'Tax Progressivity and Inequality in Brazil' is being presented by a group of researchers, including our commissioner @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Paper: taxobservatory.eu//www-site/up... Conference here: youtube.com/@MinFazenda

Following Canada and India, Italy is planning to scrap its digital services tax in order to placate Trump. (Meanwhile, Germany and Poland have both floated *introducing* digital taxes since Trump's inauguration)

What do we know about corporate ownership? This study finds that the real owners of MNC shares can be identified in only 5.8 % of all cases. Over 80 % of the top ten shareholders of 500 large MNCs are institutional investors. journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...

New Bureau of Economic Analysis data: In 2023 US multinationals booked 42% of their foreign profits in the main tax havens After 2 years of unprecedented decline, profit shifting seems to be rising again Back to the lung-run trend that started in 1978?

Reuters reporting that US considering sanctions (visa restrictions) against EU officials responsible for digital policy implementation putting US-EU relations in uncharted territory. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

You’ll never guess the answer to this one

28 countries - including China and several G7 members (Germany, France, Italy, UK) - have pushed back, in private OECD discussions, at the G7 tax "deal" to exempt US multinationals from the global minimum tax. It won't be easy, folks.

Excellent quote imo. on.ft.com/4lOZYbg Dirigiste-in chief: why Trump opened the door to ‘state-run capitalism’

1/New in @financialtimes.com w/ @himself.bsky.social on the Brussels Defect. Europe's longstanding path to power -- market regulation -- now a source of vulnerabilities. Europe's national security and democracy are at risk. Defection might be the only escape. www.ft.com/content/5820...

Ah yes we remain on the doomloop

That unmistakeable, cherished indicator that a new teaching year is commencing: students, in big circles, awkwardly made to make funny dance moves all across campus.

It is a very special moment when a thing you’ve been working on for years finally appears to you as a physical object that exists in the world. IT’S HEEEEEERE!!!!!!

We don't yet have consistent global data on 2025 tax rates, but we do for the OECD-38 countries. Here, the post-global minimum tax upward trend in corporate income tax rates has continued:

So, this will be fun

Nice scoop from Bloomberg on the ongoing technical work to accommodate Trump/GOP interests in the global minimum corporate tax. TLDR: US special treatment but overall system remains intact, limited economic impact.

The FT remains the only good global newspaper

One thing that new, open databases of corporate legal structures make easy is tracking macro trends. Example: Data shows the early Biden years featured a significant (relative) influx of corporate subsidiaries in the US among the world's largest firms - at the expense of the EU (and Russia, obv.)

Commitment to the bit 👌

interesting paper by @ulrichbrand.bsky.social et al: decarbonization will reorganize 3 key functions of the liberal capitalist state: growth, welfare provision and security. seen thru this lens, climate policy means redefining core functions of the state.. no biggie www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Following the German government floating a 10% digital services tax, Poland is the latest country to consider a DST (at 7.5%).

Good news everybody: the Trump administration is now in favour of turnover taxes!

🥹 🙌 these emails just never get old do they?

Job posting: 2 Assistant Professor positions in the LSE's International Relations department. One in International Political Economy, preferably with a focus on climate/environment or global business. Deadline is 7 September. Please distribute in your networks. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD919/a...

Penny for US trade partners' thoughts watching Trump implement a 15% revenue tax on US Big Tech while fighting tooth and nail across the globe to stop other countries implementing 3-5% revenue taxes on US Big Tech

@pierceoreilly.bsky.social Hey Pierce, when can we expect the OECD corporate tax stats 2025 (if you can say)?