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As long as there have been taxes, people have tried to avoid and evade them. Interest in these phenomena has been fueled by the effects on public revenues, as well as on the distribution of wealth and income. One prominent example of tax evasion is the hiding of wealth and income in tax havens. According to estimates by Zucman (2013), 8% of global financial wealth, or $5.9 trillion, is held in tax havens. During the global financial crisis of the late 2000s, the G20 countries vowed to tackle offshore tax evasion and proclaimed the end of the “era of banking secrecy”. In recent years, leaks containing confidential information from financial institutions as well as academic research investigating leaks and tax amnesties have confirmed the popular narrative that tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthiest in society (Alstadsæter, Johannesen and Zucman, 2018, 2019). This does not only affect public revenues, but also the measurement of wealth and income inequality. →

Nederlandse transportsector en industrie kwetsbaar voor nieuwe coronagolf buitenland. →

Een wereldwijde opleving van het coronavirus en mogelijke bijbehorende buitenlandse lockdownmaatregelen zullen Nederlandse bedrijven in de transportsector en de industrie hard raken. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het Centraal Planbureau en het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. De omzet in deze sectoren is sterk afhankelijk van de wereldwijde exportvraag. In tegenstelling tot de Nederlandse dienstensector die vooral wordt getroffen door de binnenlandse maatregelen, worden transportbedrijven en de industrie juist geraakt door maatregelen in andere landen en terugval in de wereldhandel. Nieuwe lockdowns in het buitenland hebben daarom grote economische gevolgen voor deze sectoren. →

CPB analyses six tax treaties of the Netherlands with developing countries. These treaties are part of a tax network of more than 100 countries. CPB determines the tax burden on dividend, interest and royalty flows over the network and computes the impact of diversion of these flows for withholding tax revenues. This analysis is at the request of the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. →

The rebound in world trade continues, the volume of world trade increased 4.8% in July. →