Illegalising Tax Avoidance - Making Tax Evasion Impossible: Action Plan to Tackle Cross-Border Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
(WorldNews Finland)

Illegalising Tax Avoidance - Making Tax Evasion Impossible: Action Plan to Tackle Cross-Border Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion Summary in English, October 2017 Social Democratic Party, Finland Introduction Cross-border tax avoidance and tax evasion harm economy and development in many ways. Therefore, international organisations such as the European Union (EU), the OECD and the United Nations (UN) unanimously consider tax avoidance and evasion must be tackled efficiently. Tax avoidance and tax evasion cause inequality since they hinder levying higher tax especially on the wealthy solvent taxpayers. They threaten the welfare model in the northern countries as well as development in the Global...