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How Corporate Sovereignty Threatens The Power Of Governments To Collect And Set Taxes
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Techdirt - The dangers of corporate sovereignty chapters in so-called "free trade" agreements are increasingly well-known.
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"Now that the general issues of these investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are widely understood, people are starting to explore more specific problems. Here, for example, is a new report from the Transnational Institute (TNI) looking at how ISDS cases limit the ability of governments to collect and even set taxes in their own lands"
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