As we enter the second year of the refugee crisis in southeast Bangladesh, solutions are slow to come and needs remain unmet. The rapid growth of at-risk refugee populations around the world has put international humanitarian institutions to the test, and a critical evaluation of how governments, humanitarian organizations and international institutions have handled the […]
The popular tax audit: Enforcing the social value of taxation
Governments assess taxation as a market transaction; however, paying taxes is a social obligation and not only the cost of doing business in a jurisdiction. Rethinking how governments determine tax burdens might cause taxpayers to treat the tax system as a social responsibility. More specifically, if tax authorities were to harness public opinion in auditing […]