Digital companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are champions of tax avoidance. Photo: AFP

Eva Joly

Tax evaders can help foot the world’s bill for coronavirus spending

Digital companies that do not need to physically interact with the public have benefited the most from the pandemic

Governments must also apply a higher corporate tax to, say, pharmaceutical companies that are profiting from the crisis

Eva Joly

Published: 1:30am, 5 Sep, 2020

Updated: 4:06am, 5 Sep, 2020

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Digital companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are champions of tax avoidance. Photo: AFP

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Eva Joly is a member of the Independent Commission for International Corporate Tax Reform (ICRICT) and a former Member of the European Parliament, where she was vice-chair of the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Fraud.

Tax evaders can help foot the world’s bill for coronavirus spending

Digital companies that do not need to physically interact with the public have benefited the most from the pandemic Governments must also apply a higher corporate tax to, say, pharmaceutical companies that are profiting from the crisis

Digital companies that do not need to physically interact with the public have benefited the most from the pandemic

Governments must also apply a higher corporate tax to, say, pharmaceutical companies that are profiting from the crisis