It is time for a new approach to international tax. Multinationals ranging from GE in the US, Amazon in France and Starbucks in the UK are being attacked for tax avoidance. At a recent hearing, UK members of parliament pilloried companies for using tax havens, for “manipulating” their accounts to cut their tax bills and for engaging in “immoral” activity. MPs peppered their questions with phrases such as “it beggars belief” and “I don’t know what you take us for.”
是時候采用新的國際稅制了。包括美國的通用電氣(GE)，法國的亞馬遜(Amazon)以及英國的星巴克(Starbucks)，許多跨國公司都因避稅問題而受到指責。在英國議會最近舉行的一個聽證會上，議員們抨擊企業利用避稅天堂、為降低納稅額而“操縱”賬目以及從事“不道德”行為。議員們連珠炮般地發出詰問，“難以置信”和“不知道你們把我們當成什么了”之類的語句不時出現。
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