University of Keymon: Data in Focus

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University of Keymon: Data in Focus

Postby imperialpearl » Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:12 am

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Data is rapidly becoming an increasingly valuable resource. In the private sector, its integration with business processes has allowed companies to remain extremely competitive and in-tune with the demands of the market, thus leading to their success. Its use in the public sector i.e. "the government" can prove to be extremely important to decision-making, allowing persons to make informed opinions, enabling greater transparency and allowing for greater public participation in national socioeconomic discussions through greater understandability. The University of Keymon, in recognising the inherent lack of core data throughout the public domain (both domestically and internationally) launched Data in Focus with the intention of presenting data both for the consumption of the public and decision-makers and with the intention of promoting greater use of data in the decision-making process.

Team/Staff
Dr Leonz Bollmann
  • Dr Leonz Bollmann is the founding father of the Data in Focus Initiative. He started the project whilst he acted as Head of the Department of Economics and Trade in the absence of Ramon Maurer. In his current capacity, he exists as the Director of the Centre for Global Development and Planning. Dr Bollmann's research focuses on the links between "Big Data" and good governance in developed and developing nations.
Dr Raphaël Brandebourg
  • Dr Raphaël Brandebourg is a Senior Researcher III and the Initiative's Head of Data Collection. A Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, he co-founded "Data in Focus" alongside Dr Leonz Bollmann and Dr Marguerite Lentz.
Dr Marguerite Lentz
  • Dr Marguerite Lentz is a Senior Researcher III and the Initiative's Head of Research. She co-founded Data in Focus whilst being the Head of the Department of Social Sciences. Although she no longer holds the position, she continues to lecture underneath the programme. Her research focuses on socio-economic issues such as poverty and unemployment.
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Re: University of Keymon: Data in Focus

Postby imperialpearl » Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:54 pm

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      By: Leonz Sallenbach, Researcher I (Taxation and Anti Money Laundering (AML))

      Taxation is one of the most important mechanisms of government as it is the means by which governments largely source their revenue. Although income tax, that being the taxes levied on the personal income of individual citizens, remains the largest source of revenue among national governments, corporation tax/company tax remains an integral part of a nation's tax net, accounting for around 15-20% on average. It is important to note that insofar as corporation tax remains integral to national economic development, the rate by which said tax is levied has historically been the source of debate between policy-makers and legislators across the political spectrum. On one hand, legislators and policy-makers contend with the fact that although decreasing the rate of corporation tax can be viewed as beneficial to economic growth as companies are granted greater financial room to make investment decisions, whilst on the other hand, too low of a corporation tax encourages ethically dubious and morally corrupt practices such as tax evasion and creates the environment for the development of tax havens. In its recent report on Global Tax Havens, the Financial Regulatory Authority of Keymon identified numerous states whose low corporation tax rates coupled with their lack of institutional safeguards and low enforcement of taxation laws created the impetus for their branding as tax havens.

      The above diagram represents the corporation tax rates of the world's economies. As noted, there is a gradual increase in corporation tax rate averaging around 2%, notwithstanding the statistical anomalies of Mordusia and Dundorf. Although not represented on the graph, the average global corporation tax rate stands at around 21-24%, meaning that much of the economies represented are in compliance with international best practices as it relates to corporation tax. The Financial Regulatory Authority, in compiling its reports on global tax havens, notes that nations with corporation tax rates below 15% are largely viewed by the agency as being "near non-compliant", with nations below 10% being viewed as "non-compliant tax havens."
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