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President William Ruto's recent efforts to raise around $2.6bn through tax increases failed after at least 50 protestors were killed in demonstrations across the country, according to the Kenya National [...]

For weeks Kenya has been https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/06/27/a-new-breed-of-protest-has-left-kenyas-president-tottering . Confronted with demonstrators denouncing the tax policies of https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/09/11/kenyas-president-william-ruto-shows-two-sides , Kenya's president, the security forces responded ruthlessly. They have killed at least 39 [...]

Banks reaped windfall profits simply by maintaining their currency positions while the naira devalued. Now Nigeria's government wants its share, reports Dulue Mbachu. When Nigerian President Bola Tinubu's government devalued [...]

In Brazil an overhaul of consumption taxes passed by Congress in December has been called 'historic', 'revolutionary' and a 'miracle'. 'Nobody believed this would be possible,' boasted President Luiz Inácio [...]

Markets have reacted with nervousness to violence and political instability in Kenya, which has been embroiled in nationwide protests that have reportedly left more than twenty people dead amid public […]

The government will at last roll out a property tax IF SUN YAT-SEN had got his way, China would have been a bold pioneer in the taxation of real estate. [...]

An unpopular but much-needed tax reform is scrapped SINCE APRIL 28TH protesters have defied an 8pm curfew, and the risk of catching covid-19, to take to the streets of Bogotá, [...]

Colombia is a test case of the fiscal decisions Latin American governments face THE TIMING could hardly be more awkward. Colombia is suffering a third peak of covid-19, even more [...]

JOE BIDEN He's declared that his first move as president would be to reverse Donald Trump's reductions of the tax rate for the top bracket from 37 percent back up [...]

With Fan Bingbing missing, Crazy Rich Asians failing to land a release and film stocks plummeting, president Xi Jinping's war on 'money worship' is reshaping the country's cultural landscape On [...]

Tax cuts are a popular item on the political agenda, but the spending levels and needs of the US make such items highly unlikely to actually occur. Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton have approved tax policies that raised the effective tax rate to 34.8%, the highest rate ever.

An agreement on tax reform marks a turning-point for Chile AFTER securing a landslide electoral victory on the most left-wing platform Chile has seen in more than 40 years, Michelle [...]

Dash in a sash Is Michelle Bachelet putting her country's growth model at risk? HER right-wing opponents have accused Michelle Bachelet of a multitude of sins in recent weeks, but [...]

The latest wheeze for a 75% tax rate is even worse than the one it replaced AT FIRST it was merely a bad idea. A year ago, when François Hollande [...]

The US president should adopt an aggressive budget strategy in 1997, facing long-term problems head-on despite the immediate political costs. The president will need to articulate a vision revealing how educational, emergency, and urban programs are losing potential spending dollars to built-in growth in older programs, such as social security. The American people need to see the preferences built into the budget so that the nation can truly determine if tax revenues are being properly allocated and, if not, what changes may be needed.

François Hollande remains intent on introducing a punishing top income-tax AS SOCIALIST candidate for the French presidency, François Hollande promised a 75% top income-tax rate in order to boost his [...]

After winning power this spring, French president Francois Hollande and his Socialist party began enacting a standard leftwing fiscal package, including 75 percent income-tax rates on the rich, an expanded [...]