tax Archives - IREF Europe

Taxpayers to be burdened with further obligations under a new way of creating public debt

Bob Lyddon — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:24:14 +0000

Introduction Governments and other public sector entities have borrowed up to the limit of their debt capacity, and, in the EU, its supranational entities have run up debts themselves. Public…

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Tax dilemmas in Italy

Sergio Beraldo — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:45:26 +0000

In Italy, the spotlight on tax evasion, and therefore on the need to fight it, turns on whenever the government needs additional resources to finance expenses. To avoid upsetting voters,…

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Why Taxing Robots Is Against Human Labor

Samuele Murtinu — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:20:56 +0000

“The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing”. This is the title of a very recent MIT Technology Review article written by Daniela Rus, director of MIT (Massachusetts Institute…

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Government and Gambling: Taxation of Addiction or Addiction to Taxes?

IREF — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:35:54 +0000

Gambling, alongside tobacco and alcohol, is often regarded as a vice. The main reason behind this view is that gamblers often overlook the full extent of the costs involved in…

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More Taxes, Less Revenues

Lucas Léger — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:53:44 +0000

This long-debated concept by policy makers and economists is coming back. That is because the Government believes that prosperity cannot be recovered without a strict “austerity policy”. But it actually means higher taxes only. Yet, the latest concerns of the French National Assembly on a substantial fall of tax revenues for 2013 raise the question again: has France reached the top of Laffer’s curve?

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Pay Slips: 6 lines in Germany, 20 lines in France

Sylvain C — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:45:43 +0000

6 lines against 20! In Germany, the gross salary is taxed by only few contributions (tax on salaries, solidarity, pension fee, Church). It was understood that flexibility is much more…

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Warning: Last Exit to Belgium

Jacob Arfwedson — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:37:22 +0000

The hyped rhetoric following the future Belgian exile of LVMH owner Bernard Arnault is no surprise to anyone well-versed in the French psyche.

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What the Rich are Good For

Jacob Arfwedson — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:27:53 +0000

Advocates of redistribution often reckon that soaking the rich would eliminate poverty. Consider the following: the 10 largest fortunes in France amount to 14 per cent of GDP, or 272 billion euros. If we imagine a one-off redistribution of this wealth to the 8.2 officially poor, the sum awarded to each would be some 33,000 euros. Not bad, but certainly not enough to retire on.

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European Tax: Good or Bad?

IREF — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:52:09 +0000

Super Size It? A Rationale Against Feeding the Leviathan - Julia Toser

The threat of fiscal harmonization - Massimiliano Trovato

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