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Tax evasion and inequality

Annette Alstadsæter [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 03 August 2018

It's routine for the rich to dodge tax by hiding it offshore. But how much of their wealth are they hiding illegally? Tim Phillips talks to Annette Alstadsæter of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences about how she and her colleagues used whistleblower data to discover the extent of tax evasion by the ultra-rich.

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    Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen, Gabriel Zucman

Topics:  Poverty and income inequality [6]

Tags:  taxation [7], tax evasion [8], wealth [9], offshore wealth [10], Inequality [11]


Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/tax-evasion-and-inequality

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/256235
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
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[4] https://voxeu.org/article/missing-profits-nations
[5] https://voxeu.org/article/tax-evasion-and-inequality
[6] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/poverty-and-income-inequality
[7] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/635
[8] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/732
[9] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/274
[10] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/8647
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/241