Interesting fact of the day:

In the USA current estimates have the total Tax Avoidance of the top 1% wealthy at 500 million per year collectively or 5 trillion per decade.

By comparison the total tax avoidance of all the middle class and poor who work under the table totals about 2 trillion per year, four times more.

Remind me again how the rich avoiding taxes are the main problem?

Sources:

cnbc.com/2019/11/19/tax-avoida

npr.org/2013/03/26/175361658/t

@freemo the 2 trillion figure is the total trade, not how much of that would be taxed if it was done through official channels, right?

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@stragu I know as much as you do from the source. The wording to me seemed to suggest it was the total amount of taxes avoided, which seems in line with other figures ive seen before.

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