Sentence examples for eradicate tax from inspiring English sources

An article on April 10 about proposals in France to battle corruption and tax fraud and eradicate tax havens misidentified a European Union member that had been recently warned about dangerous macroeconomic imbalances.

The Panama Papers have given us a unique opportunity to eradicate tax havens, by highlighting the desperate need to bring about tax transparency and an end to financial secrecy.

Buffeted by a political scandal, a stagnant economy and angry public reaction to an investigative report about secret offshore bank accounts, President François Hollande of France on Wednesday announced the creation of a position of special prosecutor to pursue cases of corruption and tax fraud, and vowed to eradicate tax havens "in Europe and the world".

PARIS — Buffeted by a political scandal, a stagnant economy and angry public reaction to an investigative report about secret offshore bank accounts, President François Hollande on Wednesday announced the creation of a position of special prosecutor to pursue cases of corruption and tax fraud, and vowed to eradicate tax havens "in Europe and the world".

Nothing has been done to eradicate tax havens, however, even though Luxembourg, Monaco and Liechtenstein are in the EU and Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, Gibraltar, Anguilla, the Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands are British overseas territories and crown dependencies.

But the secret to survival also lies out of the spotlight, in the radical initiatives the Syriza government will take such as tackling corruption and eradicating tax evasion as it enforces unpopular reforms.

Companies are not expected to eradicate global tax evasion.

The promise to eradicate "industrial-scale" tax avoidance – as Lord Lawson, the former chancellor, has so eloquently put it – grates when it's quickly followed by the caveat that some of the tax services Barclays offers "are not controversial".

So, now, expect to hear ever more about the structural deficit – the part of the borrowing that supposedly won't be eradicated by higher tax revenues as the economy revives.

The change, he added, "would largely eradicate the 'stateless income' tax planning games through which U.S. multinationals carry on their books more than $2.5 trillion in very-low-taxed offshore earnings, at the expense of the United States and other countries where those firms are actually doing business". Who would be the business winners and losers from a border adjustment tax?

Haggling over reforms expected to focus on eradicating corruption, overturning the tax system and modernising Athens'dysfunctional public administration will take months – if, indeed, creditors accept them in preliminary form on Monday.