How to tax TNC's
Law professor Sol Picciotto has proposed a new approach to stop tax avoidance by transnational corporations (TNCs). Over a third of all world trade is within TNCs. That gives them enormous scope to manage their affairs so that their profits appear, and are taxed, in the lowest-tax parts of the world. Starbucks, Google, and Amazon all use this scope so as to pay very little tax in the UK. Socialists object to this; and so do ordinary capitalist governments. There have been many efforts by governments, since the 1930s, to fix the problem, none of them effective. Picciotto bases himself on what...