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Hollowing Out in Slow Motion: Germany’s Middle Class Contracts

Tristan Vanheuckelom August 9, 2023

With a marginal burden of around 50% of gross income under Germany’s taxation and transfer system, people with middle incomes effectively end up with only half of every euro they earn, a study shows.

UK Civil Servants Wangle Their Way to Six Figures

Michael Curzon August 9, 2023

British bureaucracy has added more workers in the past seven years than the entire regular British Army.

A Look at VOX’s Economic Program

Carlos Perona Calvete July 18, 2023

VOX’s program contains a battery of tax-cutting measures. In particular, it aims to incentivise family formation and child rearing by removing the tax burden on families.

China Set To Benefit As Global South Lobbies Against EU Carbon Tariffs

Thomas O'Reilly July 17, 2023

Despite being lauded in Europe as essential to the green transition, new EU carbon tariffs have evoked considerable anger in the Global South and stirred fears that the tariffs will destroy national steel industries and direct more countries into the arms of China.

Report: Western Companies Made $200B in Russia Last Year

Tamás Orbán July 4, 2023

The Ukrainian advocacy group B4Ukraine revealed Western companies’ underlying hypocrisy, with some continuing to make billions even after pledging to leave—while most don’t even intend to—“further enabling Russia’s war of aggression.”

UK Tories To-And-Fro on Net Zero Levies

Michael Curzon June 25, 2023

Following two contrasting green levy claims, Britons can hope to be just £50 worse off, at best.

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Is Inflation Here to Stay?

Sven R. Larson May 25, 2023

If neither wages nor energy prices can explain why the ECB is right in being concerned about persistent inflation, then what can explain it? There is a candidate that nobody wants to talk about: taxes.

Apple and EU Clash Over €14 Billion Tax Dispute

Thomas O'Reilly May 23, 2023

In the latest battle between EU regulators and U.S. tech firms, Brussels claims that Apple benefited from tax breaks from the Irish government while Dublin struggles to keep both sides happy.

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Stop the Taxman!

Sven R. Larson May 18, 2023

The overall trend in the European economy points in the wrong direction. Therefore, it is a very bad idea to raise any taxes in the EU. It does not matter that the taxes the EU has proposed will fail to generate the revenue that the MEP tax grabbers are hoping for.

EU To Slap Tariffs on Small Goods

Tamás Orbán May 16, 2023

The proposal seeks to eliminate the existing €150 limit on importing small goods free of charges, so European customers would have to pay both sales tax and customs duties on every item in the future.

Tag: taxes

Hollowing Out in Slow Motion: Germany’s Middle Class Contracts

UK Civil Servants Wangle Their Way to Six Figures

A Look at VOX’s Economic Program

China Set To Benefit As Global South Lobbies Against EU Carbon Tariffs

Report: Western Companies Made $200B in Russia Last Year

UK Tories To-And-Fro on Net Zero Levies

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Is Inflation Here to Stay?

Apple and EU Clash Over €14 Billion Tax Dispute

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Stop the Taxman!

EU To Slap Tariffs on Small Goods

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