Public conversations about taxation have long been dominated by conservative demands for tax cuts for those much cited icons—job-creating businesses and hard-working families. Less attention has been paid to the issue of who pays more tax to fund tax cuts for others. This is changing in many countries. Economic insecurity, inequality and pressure on government budgets create a receptive environment for scandals about wealthy individuals hiding money in offshore tax havens and profitable multinational companies such as Apple avoiding taxes in many countries in which they…
Michael C. Webb
Michael C. Webb is a professor of political science at the University of Victoria whose research and teaching focuses on global political economy. He is author of a number of studies of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and its work on international corporate taxation.