The Great Tax Rip-Off – What the Panama Papers do not tell us
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The Panama Papers highlight what we already know – that the rich and powerful hide billions in taxes from almost every government on the planet. According to the Tax Justice Network, a global NGO, individuals hold $32 trillion (that’s with a “t”) in offshore tax havens, evading taxes of about $300 billion annually, three times what the developing world needs to fight climate change!
What is more subtle and insidious is how large corporations and wealthy individuals manipulate the tax system with complex artificial, barely legal schemes. In this they are aided and abetted by banks and obscenely paid professionals.
In this course we will explore how both the use of tax havens and artificial tax avoidance schemes are allowed to happen, how they work, what is being done to stop them and what more needs to be done. The big question is why countries do not strengthen and enforce their own laws to prevent tax evasion and avoidance. What is behind their reluctance?
Moderator: John Simke
Date and Time: September 8 and 15, 2-4 PM
Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 2296
Cost: $12
Maximum Class Size: 25
Booking: See Terms and Conditions. To book a course, you can register on-line below, or you can send us a cheque, payable to John and Pat Simke at 102 Bloor Street West - PH9, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1M8.
What is more subtle and insidious is how large corporations and wealthy individuals manipulate the tax system with complex artificial, barely legal schemes. In this they are aided and abetted by banks and obscenely paid professionals.
In this course we will explore how both the use of tax havens and artificial tax avoidance schemes are allowed to happen, how they work, what is being done to stop them and what more needs to be done. The big question is why countries do not strengthen and enforce their own laws to prevent tax evasion and avoidance. What is behind their reluctance?
Moderator: John Simke
Date and Time: September 8 and 15, 2-4 PM
Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 2296
Cost: $12
Maximum Class Size: 25
Booking: See Terms and Conditions. To book a course, you can register on-line below, or you can send us a cheque, payable to John and Pat Simke at 102 Bloor Street West - PH9, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1M8.
