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>A bit of a click-bait title as the article does not show how much or little the super-rich of Scandinavia pay. Just a study on how much tax they are avoiding.

Not even that. It's just a guess at who has money in offshore accounts. That's not proof of anything.

And this doesn't count "legal" tax deductions that might be considered unfair. This is only a measure of illegal evasions

> or the IRS would prosecute more people

Funny you might say that!

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/27/david-kautter-trumps-irs...

One could say he will be a great at the IRS as he has extensive and hard to acquire knowledge on how people work around the US tax code. He can use that to catch cheaters. Or one could say the revolving door revolved some more.

26 - 0 vote, now you know who runs both parties; the rich.

An accounting firm helps clients avoid taxes? You don't say!

The point is still that middle-class Scandinavians have a culture of paying taxes where where in the U.S we try to find ways to avoid paying taxes, and at the worst case there is Greece which abhors paying taxes at all costs