“The reason why you can get a lot of tax revenue by choosing a low tax rate is because you attract profit and activity at the expense of the rest of the world. This is not growing the pie”
French economist Gabriel Zucman has led the charge against tax avoidance by multinationals and, more recently, billionaires. On a visit to Dublin, he sits down with Thomas Hubert to discuss Trump's challenge to an economic development model based on attracting taxable profits from other jurisdictions, how to catch tax exiles, and the fine line between academic research and politics.
