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Tax and spend: laissez-faire Islamic State capitalism for the illicit antiquities trade?

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As I explained in the last post, according to (a so-far-offline part of) die Zeit’s international investigation, the Islamic State permits illicit excavations in return for 12.5% tax of the income of the private looting-smuggling businesses (10% income tax, 2.5% charity tax). One of its authors, Yassin Musharbash, had already been kind enough to summarise […]

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