Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7812500

PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.

If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said.

  • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    Let’s be real, they are already here. The first whispers on the wind of a new gather place and they can just toss some money at 100 shleps to create and mod the right communitities. They need to be more lenient at first, like they were with reddit, but you’ll see things like for example: mods of one large community, suddenly “helping out” with another spicy community, and things like the recent legalese fuckery in the change of service terms.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Don’t you think this is a little but unrealistic? Do you really think some corporate elite is going to risk exposing their secret agenda by bribing mods to sabotage some irrelevant niche social media platform?

    • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      That was only possible in reddit because the admins have all the power.

      In the Fediverse, they might take over the most popular instances, but a new instance can pop up anywhere.

      Decentralization is extremely powerful. Just look at the resilience of piracy, darknets and crypto. They can’t be controlled and neither can the Fediverse.

      • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        New instance popping up doesn’t mean people will use that over the larger instance. Also it’s super obnoxious dealing woth everyone wanting to be the power mod of thier own little community. Mod abuse here is 500x worse than Reddit ever was. At least reddit mods couldn’t creep on users via instance metrics.