Full damage done by UK dependencies Jersey, Gibraltar and Guernsey now shown We are issuing a correction to our recent State of Tax Justice 2023 report in light of a coding bug spotted by our team that had resulted in some data on 10 smaller jurisdictions being left out of the report’s total tally of […]
Lower income countries continue to be hit harder by global #taxabuse. Their tax losses ($46 billion) are equivalent to more than half (56%) of their...
Sir, At the Tax Justice Network, we believe our tax and financial systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. As we celebrate our twentieth anniversary this year, we note the change of era reflected by Your Majesty’s coronation. We hope this can […]
A financial activities tax (FAT) – a tax on the sum of bank profits and bankers’ remuneration packages with the proceeds going into general government revenues.
The Robin Hood tax is a package of financial transaction taxes (FTT) proposed by a campaigning group of civil society non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Campaigners have suggested the tax could be implemented globally, regionally, or unilaterally by individual nations. Conceptually similar to the Tobin tax (which was proposed for foreign...
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Tobin's tax was originally intended to penalize short-term financial round-trip excursions into another currency. By the late 1990s, the term Tobin...
A financial transaction tax (FTT) is a levy on a specific type of financial transaction for a particular purpose. The tax has been most commonly associated with the financial sector for transactions involving intangible property rather than real property. It is not usually considered to include consumption taxes paid by consumers.[1] A transaction...
human domination and destruction of nature follows from social domination between humans
Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006[2]) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. A pioneer in the environmental movement,[3] Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the...
Bookchin's vision of an ecological society is based on highly participatory, grassroots politics, in which municipal communities democratically plan and manage their affairs through popular assembly, a program he called Communalism. This democratic deliberation purposefully promotes autonomy and self-reliance, as opposed to centralized state politics. While this program retains elements of anarchism, it emphasizes a higher degree of organization (community planning, voting, and institutions) than general anarchism. In Bookchin's Communalism, these autonomous, municipal communities connect with each other via confederations
The best arena to do that is the municipality—the city, town, and village—where we have an opportunity to create a face-to-face democracy
an ecological social society that maintains a balance between its parts and whose communities can organize their lives independently
Democratic confederalism[1][2] (Kurdish: Konfederalîzma demokratîk), also known as Kurdish communalism or Apoism,[nb 1] is a political concept theorized by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan about a system of democratic self-organization[4] with the features of a confederation based on the principles of autonomy, direct...
凡是國內各族都該一視同仁，社會底層處境比原住民還不堪的，大有人在
封路封山為何事 司馬昭之心乎？山不該成為禁臠？※ 我坐在山上默默不語的看著腳下風景，我和北得拉曼山域間說是隔著一場夢，不如說是隔著一重柵欄。有誰能解夢、有誰能撤除柵欄？是山、是雲、是人？我們替被
潛臺詞其實是：爲什麼華人社會要被迫弱肉強食而原住民可以受保護？无怪優惠少數弱勢又因歷史結構有滅絕危機文化的政策在美國台灣爭議不斷，這兩個弱肉強食的社會。要麼原住民也要弱肉強食、文化滅絕就是競爭力不夠，要麼社會轉型成沒太強調各家競爭，合作、整合(integration)
Acculturation is a process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from the balancing of two cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of the society. Acculturation is a process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into a new culture, or when another...
台灣的品牌廠大部分失敗於和消費者的溝通上
Public trust in government remains low, as it has for much of the 21st century. Only two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (2%) or “most of the time” (19%).
A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.
Trust is essential for community, wellbeing, and effective cooperation. How does trust vary between different societies and locations and what matters for levels of trust?
勇氣是當你為了比你更高一層的存續而犧牲你自己的福祉
原文譯自Nassim Nicholas Taleb文章: The Logic of Risk Taking
我們的本性也許慣於對尾部風險”說不”。因為不用冒尾部風險就能賺錢的方法不計其數。不用複雜科技 — 這會導致脆弱和具未知尾部風險機率 — 就能解決問題(譬如說餵飽世界)的方法也不計其數。
昨天的一個消息讓生醫界發出不少聲音：健保署核定自費醫材的收費上限[01]。一開始聽到時相當難過，甚至感到生氣，心中不免開罵血汗、鬼島。政府用一顆石頭想止住特定貪婪者讓民眾受惠[05]，卻不免波及到生醫界。背後究竟發生了怎麼樣的問題？我們能做些什麼？
系統思考看自費限制：健保署為何砸下絆腳石？我們還能做什麼？-昨天的一個消息讓生醫界發出不少聲音：健保署核定自費醫材的收費上限[01]。一開始聽到時相當難過，甚至感到生氣，心中不免開罵血汗、鬼島。政府用一顆石頭想止住特定貪婪者讓民眾受惠[05]，卻不免波及到生醫界。-...
今天臉書被健保署自付差額醫材的新聞洗版了，主要是很多醫生跳出來砲轟健保署莫名其妙之舉，甚至也出現很多未來好的醫材會因為這個收費上限制度而放棄台灣的市場，然後台灣人的醫療就會崩壞！ 對於剛出院的我，剛刷卡付掉幾萬塊心導管暨冠狀動脈支架放置手術的費用，看到這新聞之亂，第一時間想的是能不能申請退費？因為 健保署, 收費, 醫院, 病患, 上限, 醫生, 醫材, 資訊, 手術, 心肌梗塞
