Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

If every country tries to race towards the lowest [tax] rate, then in the end nobody gains. If you believe there should be no government at all, then fine. But if you believe some government is good, then you cannot have a system that erodes the tax base in all major countries.

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Ultimately, developing countries and groups like Oxfam want to see a new intergovernmental body on cooperation in tax matters under the auspices of the United Nations.

We have international organizations for health, trade, and football - even for coffee - but not tax. Why not?

It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

I believe in the abolition of tax-exempt bonds.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going to get better growth by cutting taxes at the top has no historical justification. And it's certainly not an argument in favor of capitalism.

We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

If the goal of the Trump tax cut is to make America look more like tax-cutting North Carolina and less like soak-the-rich Connecticut and Illinois, he's certainly on the right track.

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.