In this world nothing is certain except death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin famously said. However over the last decades, globalization has opened new tax evasion possibilities exploited by multinational companies and wealthy individuals around the world. For too long this evasion has been accepted as an unavoidable part of human nature. But tax evasion is not inevitable; it is the result of policy choices—or the failure to make policy choices that act to stop it. This talk discusses the policies that have facilitated this evasion and the policies that can stop it.
Gabriel Zucman, Professor of Economics and recipient of the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal
Summer School Co-director, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Inequality
Thursday, June 20, 2024
UC Berkeley
