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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 12h

🚨Wealth, Power & Democracy🚨

Extreme wealth concentration is a systemic risk to global economic, social and political progress.
Join us during #IMFmeetings to discuss how we can address this existential threat.

📅 October 15
🕐 3PM ET
📺 Livestream shorturl.at/6H5ts

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Manon Aubry @manonaubryfr.bsky.social · 5d

La présidente de groupe macroniste @valeriehayer.bsky.social en appelle à une réforme de la fiscalité pour faire payer les multinationales.

Mais qui a bloqué un taux d'imposition minimum à 25% des entreprises pour stopper l'évasion fiscale ? La France de Macron et son groupe au Parlement européen.

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 4d

It's impossible to earn a billion, but there are more billionaires every year. How?

We talk w/ @theguardian.com's @josh-tou.bsky.social about "collected wealth" vs "earned wealth", how we tax them unequally & why #WealthTax protects our earner way of life #TaxTheSuperRich youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 12h

A billionaire not earning an annual return of 10% per year, is doing something wrong. Taxing their wealth at 2% would be equivalent to taxing 20% of that annual return, a level that is common throughout the world- said
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social to @lemonde.fr.

Read: t.co/dyXakhZIRc

Joseph Stiglitz, Prix Nobel d’économie : « La France peut mettre en place la taxe Zucman seule, ça en ferait un leader à suivre »

Le Prix Nobel d’économie 2001, chargé pour le G20 d’un rapport sur les inégalités, se dit consterné de l’attitude défaitiste des Européens face à Trump.

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Center for Economic and Social Rights @cesr.bsky.social · 6d

We’re in Paris at @icrict.bsky.social’s conversation on Taxation, inequality and democracy in Latin America with Magdalena Sepúlveda, José Antonio Ocampo, Ricardo Martner and Martín Guzmán

#TaxThePower

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Dominik Gross 🌍 @domigross.bsky.social · 5d

At the annual meeting of the @icrict.bsky.social (Independent Commission on the Reform of International Corporate Taxation) at the Paris School of Economics, we have just witnessed a passionate plea by Thomas Piketty for a new European independence - built on global tax justice.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 1d

Both within countries and internationally, the rule of law is being trampled, leading to rampant corruption, violations of basic human rights and due process, and systematic erosion of institutions. But there is hope. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 5d

At this year's United Nations General Assembly, we got a glimpse of a growing movement of countries that remain committed to democracy, human rights, and the truth, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social observes.
bit.ly/46EUkCM

The Making or Breaking of Democracy

Joseph E. Stiglitz touts a new international effort to counter democratic erosion and defend basic rights.

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 4d

📣🌱🌎Carbon Conversation with José Antonio Ocampo @icrict.bsky.social

Register today to join #ClimateForChange2025 in Brazil or online: bit.ly/4jbO2zp

#ClimateFinance #COP30 #ClimateJustice #JustTransition

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 4d

@jayatighosh.bsky.social at @assembleenationale.bsky.social: All major opposition parties in India now back a wealth tax.

Why? Because even a modest levy on <1,000 families could finance double the country’s health budget. Listen. ⤵️

#TaxThePower

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Dominik Gross 🌍 @domigross.bsky.social · 5d

Bin gerade Zeuge eines flammenden Plädoyers von Thomas Piketty für eine neue Unabhängigkeit Europas geworden - gebaut auf globaler Steuergerechtigkeit. Piketty plädiert im äussersten Fall für Sanktionen gegen die USA. @icrict.bsky.social #ParisSchoolofEconomics #GlobalTaxJustice

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 4d

An American moving to Puerto Rico can pay just 4% tax, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social noted at @assembleenationale.bsky.social with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social.

But even billionaires who tried didn’t stay — fortunes & lives remain tied to where they were built. Listen⤵

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 4d

Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la créativité des super-riches lorsqu'il s'agit d'échapper à l'impôt. Le mécanisme optimal pour contourner le principe d'égalité, c'est l'impôt minimum à taux plancher- @gabrielzucman.bsky.social a Le Figaro.

Ici: video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/polit...

Gabriel Zucman met en garde contre «les méthodes alternatives» pour taxer les riches

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. It was great to be there.

Marianne Maximi @mariannemaximi.bsky.social · 6d

Merci @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, Jayati Gosh et @josephestiglitz.bsky.social pour ce colloque sur la taxation des hauts patrimoines, à l'invitation du Président Éric Coquerel.

L'enrichissement sans limite est une aberration économique et une injustice sociale.

Il est temps que cela cesse.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 6d

You can watch the recorded event below. Thanks, @icrict.bsky.social, for live streaming.

ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 7d

Starting in 2 hours at @AssembleeNat 🇫🇷: "Taxing the Wealth of the Super-Rich: For Tax Justice and Economic Efficiency"
Featuring @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
🔴 Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTq...
Follow highlights ⤵ #TaxThePower

Taxation du patrimoine des super-riches - Colloque avec Éric Coquerel !

YouTube video by La France insoumise à l'Assemblée nationale

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 5d

América Latina debe participar en las negociaciones hacia una Convención Marco de #ONU para la cooperación internacional en materia de impuestos #UNTaxConvention, señaló nuestro comisionado José Antonio Ocampo en París.
#TaxThePower

ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 6d

¡Esta tarde en París!
Maison de l'Amérique Latine, a las 19 hs.
Los esperamos.

ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 23d

Desigualdad y el poder oligárquico avanzan en el mundo.
El 1° de octubre José Antonio Ocampo, @magdalenasepulveda.bsky.social, @martinguzman.bsky.social y Ricardo Martner, Braulio Moro, debatirán lo que está en juego.

📍En 217, bd st-germain, Paris
⏰18:30.

Info: www.mal217.org/fr/agenda/fi...

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 7d

Starting in 2 hours at @AssembleeNat 🇫🇷: "Taxing the Wealth of the Super-Rich: For Tax Justice and Economic Efficiency"
Featuring @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
🔴 Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTq...
Follow highlights ⤵ #TaxThePower

Taxation du patrimoine des super-riches - Colloque avec Éric Coquerel !

YouTube video by La France insoumise à l'Assemblée nationale

www.youtube.com

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 8d

The world (minus the #US) is negotiating a global #UNTaxConvention!
Join José Antonio Ocampo @toveryding.bsky.social @ryadslmn.bsky.social @qparrinello.bsky.social Eva Joly & Wanda Montero, Thursday Oct 2, in Paris.
📍@pse.bsky.social
⏰6-8pm
To register: shorturl.at/I6Kvp

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 8d

Intl' taxation is caught in great power struggles, as Donald Trump attempts to dismantle digital services & global minimum taxes.
Join @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social
@manonaubryfr.bsky.social & Valerie Hayer, on Oct 2!
📍@pse.bsky.social
⏰6 PM
Register: shorturl.at/I6Kvp

Panel 1: Who Shapes the Rules? Trade Wars, Tax Battles and the Future of Global
Governance (50 min) - 2 rounds of questions (40 min.) and (10 min.) of Q&A.
International taxation is no longer a technocratic issue—it is caught in the crossfire of
global power struggles. With the return of Trump, the U.S. is once again using tariffs and
trade threats to dismantle Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) abroad, as well as the minimum
tax on multinational corporations, defending its tech giants while undermining
multilateral negotiations. This panel will examine how the weaponization of trade policy
intersects with ongoing processes on international tax reform—from the OECD/G20 to
the United Nations—raising fundamental questions about sovereignty, fairness, and
the balance of power in global governance.
Speakers will reflect on what is at stake: whether unilateralism and trade wars will derail
efforts to build a fairer international tax system and what pathways exist toward an
inclusive and equitable framework that can withstand great-power politics.
Moderator: Victor Goury-Laffont (POLITICO).
Joseph Stiglitz, ICRICT Co-Chair .
Manon Aubry, Co-chair of the Left Group in the European Parliament
Member of the ECON and FISC committees.
Valérie Hayer, Présidente de Renew Europe au Parlement européen.
Break and change of panel.
Shaping the Future of International Tax Cooperation
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7:05-7:50 PM
7:50-8:00 PM
Panel 2: Negotiating the details:
Key elements of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax
Cooperation (45 min).
Building on the political discussion, this panel will take a closer look at the concrete
elements under negotiation in the UN Framework Convention on International Tax
Cooperation and its early protocols on taxation of cross-border services and dispute
prevention and resolution. Experts will examine proposals on the table, alternative
measures advanced by different countries and regions, and the contrasting realities
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 10d

C’est le sens de l’impôt plancher sur les ultra-riches que je défends. C’est un combat qui, même s’il est difficile, mérite d’être mené.

Il m’aura fallu des années pour bien comprendre tout cela mais je vais vous l’expliquer ici, en toute rigueur et en toute clarté.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 10d

Parfois c’est ce qui nous est le plus proche que l’on met le plus de temps à voir.

Pendant quinze ans j’ai cartographié les grandes fortunes mondiales, objectivé leurs techniques pour contourner l’impôt dans les paradis fiscaux, du Luxembourg aux îles vierges britanniques... 🧵

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 9d

Latin America faces record inequality & regressive tax systems keep the cycle alive.

On Oct 1 in Paris 🇫🇷, #ICRICT's @magdalenasepulveda.bsky.social , Jose Ocampo, @martinguzman.bsky.social & Ricardo Martner debate progressive taxation.

Full details: mal217.org/fr/agenda/fi...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 10d

Please join @jayatighosh.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and me on October 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the National Assembly in Paris for a discussion with Éric Coquerel on taxing the ultra rich, organized by @icrict.bsky.social and the EU Tax Observatory. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 12d

Please join us on Oct 2 in Paris when ICRICT Commissioners, policymakers and civil society debate how to build a fairer international tax system amid great-power rivalry 6–8PM @PSEinfo Inscriptions: shorturl.at/I6Kvp

Amphithéâtre Daniel Cohen. Paris School of Economics, October 2nd 2025, 1800-2000

Please register in order to be able to attend this event

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 15d

When global rules leave some countries unable to protect their populations from current or future pandemics, that does not only endanger people in those countries, it endangers people in all countries.

UNAIDS Global @unaids.org · 15d

Ahead of #UNGA, global experts @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @monicageingos.bsky.social and @michaelmarmot.bsky.social investigate how inequalities are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics.

Read more: www.unaids.org/en/resources...

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