Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. This article is more than 10 years old. According to a recent poll, voters in the ...

Companies that engage in aggressive tax avoidance may be saving money in the short term, but they are paying a hidden price ...

One of the mysteries of corporate tax behavior is why companies don’t always do everything they can to avoid taxes. University of Chicago’s David Weisbach helped to identify this phenomenon, which is ...

Admittedly, it is possible to take a different view on this matter, but there's a good and entirely reasonable argument that tax avoidance and tax evasion work to the benefit of us all. The crucial ...

Democrats are going after tax avoidance from big companies and wealthy individuals as the debate on taxes heats up ahead of tax code expirations scheduled for next year. A new set of proposed rules ...

Nothing riles Americans quite like taxes: who pays what, whether the government needs to raise them or might slash them, and how much they’re eating away at our paychecks. And when it comes to tax ...

The new chair of HSBC lost money in a tax-avoiding investment scheme that ultimately collapsed, City AM can reveal. Brendon ...

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World leaders, celebrities, and even soccer players, a leak from the law firm Mossack Fonseca recently revealed, are fond of using shell companies to avoid paying taxes. While as of yet, few ...

The majority of taxpayers can’t afford the expensive professional advice on which successful tax-avoidance strategies depend. By Brooke Harrington Dr. Harrington is a professor of sociology at ...

Nicolas Duboille and Mathis Rossignol of Sumerson analyse the far-reaching implications of a French Supreme Administrative Court decision clarifying the application of Article 123 bis of the General T ...