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Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. It’s undermining the very goal of capitalism and a free-market economy.”","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>World’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWorld’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-10 14:30 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes>bloomberg</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nAmazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. It’s undermining the very goal of capitalism and a free-market economy.”","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>World’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWorld’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-10 14:30 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes>bloomberg</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nAmazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. It’s undermining the very goal of capitalism and a free-market economy.”","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>World’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWorld’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-10 14:30 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes>bloomberg</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nAmazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. It’s undermining the very goal of capitalism and a free-market economy.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4663309,"gmtCreate":1623307209392,"gmtModify":1663228351345,"authorId":3585016169113806,"author":{"id":3585016169113806,"authorId":3585016169113806,"name":"moneyfreedom","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0d3d86db039526e68f0ef11b938e4ed9","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":183316122,"type":1,"supId":4663290,"prevId":0,"content":"Please respond to this comment thanks","text":"Please respond to this comment thanks","html":"Please respond to this comment thanks"},{"id":4663290,"gmtCreate":1623307116290,"gmtModify":1663228348132,"authorId":3571731917050098,"author":{"id":3571731917050098,"authorId":3571731917050098,"name":"killuz","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f2f7506133b4298111ecff9ef46ff33c","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be-2","templateUuid":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be","name":"Master Trader","description":"Total number of securities or futures transactions reached 100","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad22cfbe2d05aa393b18e9226e4b0307","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/36702e6ff3ffe46acafee66cc85273ca","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d52eb88fa385cf5abe2616ed63781765","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.21","exceedPercentage":"80.67%","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1100},"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":183316122,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"comment and like","text":"comment and like","html":"comment and like"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":183318570,"gmtCreate":1623306902690,"gmtModify":1704200539827,"author":{"id":"3569306444808623","authorId":"3569306444808623","name":"yuanlong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f94902bd3391174bc3ff6b02f98169e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Tax the ultra wealthy!","listText":"Tax the ultra wealthy!","text":"Tax the ultra wealthy!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/183318570","repostId":1100474066,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1100474066","pubTimestamp":1623306645,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1100474066?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-10 14:30","market":"us","language":"en","title":"World’s Richest Face Tax Squeeze After 40% Run-Up in Fortunes","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1100474066","media":"bloomberg","summary":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too","content":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5ab1d945db8edf3d1450daed610c9ab\" tg-width=\"873\" tg-height=\"513\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4659f086b7a925fa517b8f9026c6359\" tg-width=\"938\" tg-height=\"397\">Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1c228802d147f8d4f06faf2f76120f59\" tg-width=\"931\" tg-height=\"410\">Source: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\n<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d845bae07f165ac1814f9a4281fc2a87\" tg-width=\"936\" tg-height=\"398\">Source: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. 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Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/world-s-richest-face-a-tax-squeeze-after-40-run-up-in-fortunes","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100474066","content_text":"Amazon.com Inc. founderJeff Bezoshas the resources to launch himself into space. Elon Musk does, too.\nIn many ways, though, the world’s richest people left the rest of us behind long ago.\nThe world’swealthiest 500individuals are now worth $8.4 trillion, up more than 40% in the year and a half since the global pandemic began its devastation. Meanwhile, the economy’s biggest winners, the tech corporations that created many of these vast fortunes, pay lower tax rates than grocery clerks, and their mega-wealthy founders can exploit legal loopholes to pass huge windfalls onto heirs largely tax-free.\nTaxing Talks\nMore than 100 countries need to agree on a new framework for multinational companies\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Data as of Feb. 2021; G-7 countries are also members of the G-20\nNow, a group powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of the tech titans is on the verge of taking action. The leaders of the Group of Seven, including U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meet in southwestern England this weekend, where they’re expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system.\nWhile the changes still need approval from a larger group of nations, including China, before becoming reality, the agreement by the G-7 marks a historic turning point after decades of falling levies on multinational corporations.\n“It is very easy for multinationals and the richest people to escape tax. What we are seeing with the G-7 is that the time has come for politicians to take back power,” said Philippe Martin, a former adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron who now heads the Conseil d’Analyse Economique. “There is a window of opportunity, a turning point at which they are realizing they need tax power and they need to spend more.”\nThe deal would bolster Biden’s own plans to boost taxes on corporations and the wealthy by raising rates, making heirs pay more, and equalizing rates between investors and workers.\nThe proposals are part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm to Washington, including new taxes on capital gains,inheritances, andwealththat have gained momentum since Covid-19 blew massive fiscal holes in government budgets around the world.\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen framed the G-7 deal as a way for governments to protect their national sovereignty to set tax policy.\n“For too long there has been a global race-to-the-bottom in corporate tax rates,” Yellen said following the G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London last week, ahead of this weekend’s gathering.\nAmazon and some other tech companies, meanwhile, have endorsed the agreement, believing the global regime will be more manageable than costly alternatives being pursued by individual countries. Bezos has alsovoiced supportfor higher U.S. corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure.\nAdvocates for higher taxes say the steps are necessary to stave off a rise in populism and even for the sustainability of capitalism.\n“The most visible and prominent winners of globalization are these big multinationals whose effective tax rates have collapsed,” said University of California at Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman, who tracks wealth and inequality. “That can only lead to a growing rejection of that form of globalization by the people.”\nThe World Economic Forum, the organizer of the annual conference for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, issued awhite paperthis month arguing “taxation systems must be redesigned efficiently to tax capital and multinationals.”\nGovernments need the revenue and “progressive taxation will be an essential mechanism to compensate for the uneven recovery already under way,” according to the report.\nThere remain plenty of defenders of low taxes.\nA Taxing Debate\nCorporate tax rates in OECD countries range from 9% to more than 30%\nSource: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Note: Rates listed are combined national and provincial levies\nConservative economists such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, argue taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily will damage the economy.\n“Higher taxes on capital generally raises the possibility of a slowdown of productivity growth,” said Holtz-Eakin, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush.\nThat view is losing ground though as resentment grows over the ways that highly profitable corporations reduce their taxes.\nFacebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft collectively skirted approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes from 2010 to 2019, according to ananalysisof regulatory filings from Fair Tax Mark, a progressive think tank. Many of those untaxed profits were shifted into tax havens like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\nAmazon paid an effective corporate tax rate of 11.8% in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Economicsanalysis, and it’s hardly an outlier among highly successful tech companies. Facebook, founded by the world’s fifth-richest person, Mark Zuckerberg, paid 12.2% last year.\nTech’s Tax Rate\nDigital giants paid relatively low levels of tax on profits from 2010-2019\nSource: Fair Tax Mark\nAsked to comment for this article, an Amazon spokesperson pointed to some of the company’s prior statements related to its tax bill, including, in part: “Amazon’s taxes, which are publicly reported, reflect our continued investments, employee compensation, and current U.S. tax laws.”\nAs a mix between a technology company and a retailer with massive physical infrastructure, Amazon is able to use a slew of long-standing, low-profile tax preferences for stock compensation, buildings, research and development. Bezos has pushed to re-invest profits into the company, a strategy that keeps taxable income low and tax breaks high.\nAmazon completely avoided federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 thanks to its savvy use of the tax code. Since then, the company has had to pay some income tax to the Internal Revenue Service, but it’s been far below the 21% headline rate installed under President Donald Trump.\nBillionaire tech founders often pay even less personally than their corporations do.\nBezos, for example, got $77 billion richer in 2020, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index. But in the U.S., gains on stock are only taxed when they’re sold, at a far lower rate than well-off workers pay, meaning that Bezos owed at most a few billion dollars in taxes to the U.S. Treasury last year.\n“This country’s wealthiest, who profited immensely during the pandemic, have not been paying their fair share,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said after ProPublicareportedon Tuesday that several of the world’s billionaires, including Bezos, didn’t pay any federal income taxes in some years.\nThe media organization said it obtained confidential tax documents on thousands of the wealthiest Americans, including for Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg and others told ProPublica they had paid the taxes they owed.\nTo remove advantages in the U.S. tax code that benefit the ultra-wealthy, Biden has proposed taxing inherited assets that currently escape levies, and boosting the top rate on investment income so that well-paid workers and investors pay the same.\nOn an international scale, the administration is seeking a global minimum tax of at least 15% for the world’s most profitable companies -- the deal expected to be pushed forward at the G-7 meeting this weekend.\nSponsored ContentThe New Auto RevolutionGAC Motor\nThe G-7 deal would change other rules for taxing multinationals, in order to undercut efforts to shift profits to low-tax countries. Biden is also advocating to increase the U.S. corporate rate to 28%, partly reversing Trump’s tax overhaul.\nRace to the Bottom\nWorldwide average statutory corporate income tax rates have been declining for four decades\nSource: Tax Foundation via Atlantic Council\nTech companies could see their effective tax rates jump if a global tax deal is reached, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could both pay 28% on their profits worldwide, up from 18% and 17% respectively under current rules, the report found.\nFor all the talk of taxing the rich, Biden’s proposals, and the international tax deal, face serious hurdles before they’re adopted.\nWhile some of his fellow Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing for more radical changes to the taxes of estates and wealth, others are hesitant.\nThe next step for the global tax negotiations, which were launched years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and have involved roughly 140 nations, is to win agreement among the Group of 20 countries. Finance ministers for the G-20, which collectively oversee about 90% of the world’s economy, will meet in July in Venice.\nStumbling blocks to reaching a deal by year-end include China, which may seekexemptionsfrom the minimum tax.\nStill, there are hopes the global effort “puts an end to the craziness,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the center for tax policy at the OECD. “You had loopholes everywhere and nobody was taking care of that. It’s undermining the very goal of capitalism and a free-market economy.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4668368,"gmtCreate":1623333147796,"gmtModify":1663228373926,"authorId":3575408338074495,"author":{"id":3575408338074495,"authorId":3575408338074495,"name":"我发大财了","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/850ce10f8979981b703d0999ccb63c31","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be-3","templateUuid":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be","name":"Legendary Trader","description":"Total number of securities or futures transactions reached 300","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/656db16598a0b8f21429e10d6c1cb033","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/03f10910d4dd9234f9b5702a3342193a","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0c767e35268feb729d50d3fa9a386c5a","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.21","exceedPercentage":"93.15%","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1100},"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":183311269,"type":1,"supId":4663312,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"},{"id":4663312,"gmtCreate":1623307224034,"gmtModify":1663228350845,"authorId":3585016169113806,"author":{"id":3585016169113806,"authorId":3585016169113806,"name":"moneyfreedom","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0d3d86db039526e68f0ef11b938e4ed9","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":183311269,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Please respond to this comment thanks","text":"Please respond to this comment thanks","html":"Please respond to this comment thanks"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":40,"commentSize":19,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}