Nick Shaxson ■ Graph of the day: the broken U.S. tax system

Graph of the day: the broken U.S. tax system

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15 April 2016

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From Oxfam America’s new report Broken at the Top: How America’s dysfunctional tax system costs billions in corporate tax dodging:

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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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