Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day: we are entering the age of tax wars

Quote of the day: we are entering the age of tax wars

Nick Shaxson

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21 January 2015

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From Mark Textor, adviser to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

“We are entering the period of tax wars instead of trade wars,” he said. “People vote in governments to solve the problem, and giant multinationals not paying tax is a problem.”

One for the Tax Wars page. Hat tip: Mark Zirnsak.

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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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