Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day – on repealing the corporate income tax

Quote of the day – on repealing the corporate income tax

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29 August 2014

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From Citizens for Tax Justice in the U.S.

“The idea of repealing the corporate tax seems to have just one virtue, which is that it’s simplistic enough to fit into a blog post or op-ed. In every other way this idea is terrible.”

We’ve written about this before, with more to come soon.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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