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WSJ | Tax-Evasion Allegations Dog Greece
A former Greek finance minister on Wednesday accused financial-crime investigators of failing to pursue leads against Greeks who salted away more than €1 billion in Swiss bank accounts, fueling a new round of finger-pointing over Athens' alleged failure to move against wealthy tax dodgers.
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Economist | Fun with tax
Depending on your viewpoint, tax may be the price of civilisation or it may be a form of legalised theft. What is undoubtedly true is that it is less onerous now than was the case until recently, in the rich world at least.
AEI | Taxing the rich: Not just an American controversy
The Czech Republic is waiting for the resolution of a dispute about a “tax on millionaires” which threatens the approval of the 2013 budget and could bring down the Czech government. Sound familiar? It turns out that neither the desire to tax the rich nor the fierce opposition that such proposals provoke is unique to the United States.
