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Session 7
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Avoidance practices
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Concretely?
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Why tax avoidance is problematic?
Social
inequality
Some arguments
Weaken
compliance
culture
Unfair
competition
Eroding
tax
revenue
(impact on
poverty)
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Based on De Colle & Bennet (2012)
Discussion
Civil
Society
Environmental
Related to working impact, health of Relationship with
conditions, social population, rights abusive local
rights etc. of local population,
governments
relationship with
outsourcing etc.
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1 Codes 2
PREVALENCE
EFFECTIVENESS
Today all sorts of
organizations have codes Divergent and conflicting
results from significant
Worldwide: 58 of 100 largest
positive relationship to
companies (2004)
counterproductive
Belgium: 53 of 100 largest
companies (2002) DIRECTIONAL
PART OF THE CODE
ASPIRATIONAL
PART OF THE CODE Rules of conduct
Self-interest Marketing
Vacuum created by
globalisation Politics of
Need to fill the gap consumption
Forced
(e.g. Greenpeace
shares of Shell)
Summary:
755 to 12
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