Tax Avoidance
The legal or quasi-legal reduction of tax liabilities through loopholes and cross-border arrangements erodes public revenue, can weaken public services, and may worsen inequality worldwide.
Severity score
39.2
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
8Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
58People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
78Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
55Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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