#taxodus

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Inspiratie: Taxodus http://taxodus.net/

Inspiratie: Consumerbarometer http://www.consumerbarometer.com/

Beide gezien bij de Dutch Design Awards (onderdeel van Dutch Design Week). Taxodus is winnaar in de categorie Mini young designer awards. (In de video meer achtergrond informatie)

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Cool financial game.  

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In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational corporations are driving down taxes across the world, chief executive Tim Cook warned Congress that he would refuse to repatriate a total of $100bn stashed offshore unless it acted to slash the 35% US rate. He also revealed that Apple had struck a secret deal with the Irish government in 1980 to limit its domestic taxes there to 2%.

Apple chief calls for US corporate tax to be cut to single digits | Technology | The Guardian

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Let's Play

Even today tax havens recall the image of tropical islands with bank secrecy where celebrities and mafiosi park their money. Yet, offshore financial centers have long ceased being an ‘exotic side show’ to the global economy – now they are its very core. It is wealthy OECD countries in particular that play a major role in this offshore economy and offer multinationals numerous opportunities to evade financial regulation. After all, capital flows always choose the path of the least resistance. What are those paths/roads in the year 2013?

Taxodus is a serious, web-based game that responds to the industry of tax planning by which multinationals attempt to lower their taxes on profits and other mandatory contributions as much as possible. Players, ‘acting’ on behalf of multinationals, have to dodge paying as much tax as they can within a strategic landscape that incorporates real data on international capital flows such as withholding taxes and tax treaties. By setting up subsidiaries and intermediate holdings globally, players reveal potential routes through which multinationals can 'neutralise' their tax burdens. These player-generated tax routes are uploaded as a fiscal annual report and are accessible in the public database.

Today, tax avoidance is no longer an exception but the norm. It has created a powerful financial shadow world into which capital flows are pumped to legally circumvent financial regulation. And while many governments lose tax revenues year after year, large capital sums are accumulating in offshore jurisdictions out of sight of the 'tax man'. Taxodus aims at making the geography, impact and basic principles of the offshore economy visible through crowdsourcing.

Taxodus is an art project by Femke Herregraven and was created with the support of the Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Mediaproducties, the Mondriaan Fund, the Financieel Dagblad and the VPRO. DISCLAIMER – The companies that are used in the game are for illustration purposes only and are unrelated to Taxodus. The outcome of the game is completely fictitious. No conclusions can be drawn about the amount of tax these companies avoid paying from playing the game.

Which company will you pick to be?

Anheuser-Busch Inbev

Accenture

Allianz

Amazon

Amerisource Bergen

Apple

Arcelor Mittal

At&T

Axa

Barclays

BP

Carrefour

Chevron

Citigroup

Coca Cola

Conoco Phillips

Daimler

Ecopetrol

Eni

Exxon Mobil

Foxconn

Gazprom

General Electric

Glencore

Google

Gucci

H&M

Hitachi

HSBC

Hyundai

IBM

Ikea

ING

JP Morgan Chase

L'Oreal

Louis Vuitton

Maersk

Manulife Financial

Mcdonalds

Medtronic

Microsoft

Nestle

News Corp

Nokia

Novatek

Oracle

PDVSA

Pemex

Petrobras

Petrochina

Pfizer

Prada

PTT

Saudi Basic Industries

Shell

Siemens

Sonatrach

Sony

Starbucks

Statoil

Telefonica

Teva

Total

Toyota

Unilever

Vale

Virgin

Volkswagen

Volvo

Walmart

Walt Disney

Wells Fargo

Wilmar

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