Markus Meinzer
@markusmeinzer.bsky.social
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Director of policy @taxjustice.net - author #SteueroaseDeutschland - PhD Economics - opinion mine -
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Appeal by 40 former heads of state for a “new economic coalition of the willing” to address the threats of inequality, poverty & environmental breakdown.

Organised by @clubdemadrid.bsky.social, it proposes a pathway for international tax cooperation.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#FfD4
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🌎 Next month at @UNICAMP, Brazil, we’ll co-host #ClimateforChange2025 ahead of #COP30.

Why must #TaxSovereignty & #ClimateJustice go hand in hand for #JustTransitions? Find out in our latest blog 🔗 bit.ly/3KgiImR
Why Climate Justice Needs Tax Sovereignty - Tax Justice Network
Tax sovereignty is the missing link for climate justice — reclaiming wealth, repairing harms, and funding just transitions.
bit.ly
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“The economic system lies in the core of the climate crisis yet in its transformation lies the solution.” @emimamberti.bsky.social, @cesr.bsky.social

Join #ClimateforChange2025 to unite #TaxJustice & #ClimateJustice for fair finance and a just transition.
👉 bit.ly/4jbO2zp #COP30
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alexcobham.bsky.social
Emboldened by Trump's open calls for US multinationals not to be taxed on their profits abroad, lobbyists are now targeting the transparency measures which will reveal the scale of their tax abuse. For Australia's good, @albomp.bsky.social must refuse to be bullied
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
US giants urge Trump to push back on Australian tax law
Business groups in the US have urged the US President to press Australia to back down on tax laws that they say put them at a competitive disadvantage.
www.afr.com
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alexcobham.bsky.social
The video on the FT.com front page right now is one for the ages - the collective heads of US big tech fawning over the 'leadership' of President Trump. Their participation tells you about their values. Their specific emphasis reveals what they are getting out of it.
Screenshot from FT.com. 

Heading: Technology sector: Big Tech bosses court favour with Trumps at White House dinner

Image: video still. Mark Zuckerberg addressing Donald Trump, with caption of remarks reading "...together and you know I think you know all of the companies here are..."
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alexcobham.bsky.social
Interesting pieces from @pkrugman.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social on why financial markets haven't - YET - gone off a cliff in response to the multitude of harms being committed by the Trump administration.
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taxjustice.net
It's been a searing summer for one dodgy millionaire exodus myth.

Quick recap of how these claims went from gospel to bogus.
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Every other week now there’s more evidence confirming our debunking of these scare stories. It shows how far opponents of #WealthTax are willing to go

The UK must make sure its tax policy represents the will of its people, not the yarn of lobbyists #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/hmrc-d...
HMRC data debunks UK non-dom exodus claims, FT reports - Tax Justice Network
The UK must make sure its tax policy represents the will of its people, not the yarn of lobbyists, and begin again to tax extreme wealth.
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bastianobermayer.bsky.social
People still are tragically underestimating what this is doing to our societies.
The rich got richer and richer, super rich, mega rich. They are dictating policies.
So it gets worse — and they get richer. It tears our societies apart.
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alexcobham.bsky.social
Fantastic launch event today for two really powerful studies from the G-24 and @southcentre.bsky.social - showing that a key element of the OECD's minimum tax simply "does not impact *any treaty* between OECD and G-24/South Centre
Member States", but UN equivalent would raise significant revenues.
southcentre.bsky.social
📰South Centre & G-24 today jointly released country-level revenue estimates of the UN & OECD Subject to Tax Rule (STTR) for their 65 combined Member States.
Results show higher revenues from UN STTR, & reinforce benefits of a UN Tax Convention.
➡️ www.southcentre.int/press-releas...
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New World Wealth and Henley & Partners seem to be on a warpath to shape public opinion on wealth by repeatedly publishing unreliable figures with little to no context, and ignoring criticism of their methodology and calls for transparency.

🧵on their claims today
www.thetimes.com/article/bill...
Billionaires are fleeing the UK — and wealth tax could make more quit
At least 18 dollar-billionaires left in two years, research suggests, moving their tax residency to countries such as the UAE and Monaco
www.thetimes.com
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News: 16500 millionaires are leaving. That's a lot
Us: That's less than 1% of UK millionaires
News: Wait, 16500 'liquid' millionaires (most mobile) are leaving. That's a lot if you only count 'liquid' ones
Us: That's still less than 3% of UK 'liquid' millionaires. So +97% are choosing to stay
News:😡
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eurodadnews.bsky.social
“It is our job to bring life, colour, democracy and legitimacy to this process.”
@toveryding.bsky.social speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation at the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪
#FfD4People #SystemChangeNow #EraOfJustice
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mehrdemokratie.bsky.social
Eigentum verpflichtet: Die Empfehlungen der #Bürgerdebatte gerechte Steuern und Finanzen sind da! 40 per Los ausgewählte Bürger:innen haben letztes Wochenende gemeinsam Ideen für ein gerechtes Finanz- und Steuersystem erarbeitet. (1/4)
👉 Zu den Empfehlungen: www.steuerdebatte.info/ablauf/empfe...
Bürgerdebatte gerechte Steuern und Finanzen
Gute Politik und demokratische Entscheidungen sind immer auch eine Frage des Geldes. Was wollen und können wir uns als Gemeinschaft leisten? wer soll dafür bezahlen? Über diese Fragen sollte nicht nur...
www.steuerdebatte.info
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'Scarcity to address the climate crisis comes not from a genuine lack of resources but from elite capture and a lack of tax sovereignty on the part of countries' ~ Franziska Mager #SB62 #ClimateFinance #BonnClimateConference
The reports were true:

www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

I'm wondering what all the business associations in Europe and elsewhere in the world will have to say about this...

bsky.app/profile/taxj...
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If today’s reports are true, G7 countries will be choosing tax subjugation under Trump over tax sovereignty at the UN. But it’s looking like Trump might not be able to hold countries at economic gunpoint much longer.

taxjustice.net/press/g7-has...
G7 hasty cave in would finally pronounce global tax deal dead - Tax Justice Network
It's looking like Trump might not be able to hold countries at economic gunpoint much longer.
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Ein Hintergrundartikel zum Potential des UN-Steuerabkommens:

"Trump, Steuern und Zeit für Entscheidungen. Wie der Angriff des US-Präsidenten auf die globale Steuerkooperation unerwartete Folgen haben kann."

in: Rundbrief Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung, 2025(2), 8–10.

www.forumue.de/wp-content/u...
Sind Sie schon Teil der "neuen Wirtschaftskoalition der Willigen"?

@bmz.de @bmwe-bund.bsky.social @bmf-bund.de
@bundestag.de @cducsueuropa.bsky.social
@dielinkebt.de @gruene-bundestag.de @spdfraktion.de

Konsequent durchgesetzte Steuersouveränität hilft dabei, sozial Schwache zu verschonen.
...must advance. The UN Tax Convention offers the visionary path to follow."

Hintergrund zum Potential des UN-Steuerabkommens im Interview mit der Deutschen Welle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4Y...

#FfD4
@surplusmagazin.bsky.social @freitag.de @taz.de @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social @zeit.de
Wortlaut:
"Central to inequality-busting financing is international tax cooperation. We need global minimum taxes on the profits of multinationals, to ensure they pay their fair share in all the countries they operate. Brazil’s historic 2024 G20 global agenda to tax high-net-worth individuals...
40 ehemalige Staatschefs fordern eine „neue Wirtschaftskoalition der Willigen“, um Ungleichheit, Armut & Umweltzerstörung zurückzudrängen.

Dafür schlagen sie unter anderem bessere internationale Zusammenarbeit im Steuerbereich bei den Vereinten Nationen vor.

Brief: clubmadrid.org/wp-content/u...
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krietzler.bsky.social
Inspiriert von der DGB-Verteilungskonferenz habe ich heute im Buchladen meines Vertrauens (varia-vardar.buchkatalog.de) meine Urlaubslektüre abgeholt.
@steuergerecht.bsky.social @martynalinartas.bsky.social