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BUSINESS AFFAIRS
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Moral Hazards of Offshore
Financial Centres Tax
havens damage health and
wealth
Welcome to OFFSHORE WATCH. Almost everyone's pensions and savings now pass through the offshore havens that have sprung up over the last 30 years or so. These offshore havens are highly secretive and encourage wealthy individuals and transnational corporations to avoid paying taxes in the countries in which they operate. All over the world the press and regulators frequently report that the offshore havens are associated with money laundering, drug trafficking, smuggling, tax evasion and other forms of organized crimes. Many of these havens are UK Crown Dependencies. Successive British government have turned a blind eye to the affairs of the
AABA has
provided a
forum for discussion and analysis of Offshore
havens.
Your contribution is most welcome. It should be submitted either
electronically, on
disk (Word
or something similar), or printed on good quality paper and sent to Prem
Sikka
(prems@essex.ac.uk) or to John Christensen
(john@taxjustice.net). John is a former
economic adviser to the government of Jersey.