Tax Havens
A tax haven is a country or place with very low "effective" rates of taxation for foreign investors ("headline" rates may be higher). In some traditional definitions, a tax haven also offers financial secrecy. However, while countries with high levels of secrecy but also high rates of taxation (e.g. the United States and Germany in the Financial Secrecy Index ("FSI") rankings) can feature in some tax haven lists, they are not universally considered as tax havens. In contrast, countries with lower levels of secrecy but also low "effective" rates of taxation (e.g. Ireland in the FSI rankings), appear in most …
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U4: U4 Anti-corruption Resources Centre · 18 April 2024 English
Conceptualising the drivers The role of the financial and service industries in and forms of corruption facilitating transnational corruption has climbed the research agenda in recent years. [...] And regulatory …
1995; Ades and Di Tella in financial centres, tax havens and secrecy 1997; Goudie and Stasavage 1997) …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 18 April 2024
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …
operation and Development in the fight against tax havens and tax evasion. 18 Dominique Bocquet Too much …
ActionAid International · 10 April 2024 English
Despite these already low levels of spending on the public sector workforce, 20 countries have seen active declines in their spending on public sector workers as a % of GDP …
financial flows, unfair trade taxation, acting on tax havens and promoting a process for setting fair global … that facilitate the transfer of vast sums into tax havens. Having won the first stage of the battle for …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 March 2024 English
We assess the pattern of Euro Area financial integration adjusting for the role of “onshore offshore financial centers” (OOFCs) within the Euro Area. The OOFCs of Luxembourg, Ireland, and the …
stashed by wealthy residents of the US and EA in tax havens such as Switzerland. Alstadsæter et al. (2018) … (2018) estimates who owns the wealth of tax havens around the world.4 Ciccone et al. (2022) provide evidence … consequences of looking through the OOFCs and global tax havens for our understanding of European capital allocation … United States 134 138 317 323 +141% C. Non-OOFC Tax Havens Bermuda 0 0 2 1 +101% Cayman Islands 4 0 25 1 … Chinese securities that are themselves resident in tax havens. Similarly, the percentage increases in the portfolio …
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · 25 March 2024
countries to control the import and export of The rules and procedures for transporting certain hazardous wastes and wastes requiring Figure 2 Overview of key public actors, the processes they …
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IMF: International Monetary Fund · 22 March 2024 English
Pillar Two rules of the Inclusive Framework agreement on a minimum corporate tax (known as ‘Global Anti-Base Erosion Rules’, for short GloBE) have important implications for the design of the …
Institutional and Historical Characteristics of Tax Havens, Mimeo. Dharmapala, Dhammika, and Hines, James … James R, 2009, Which Countries Become Tax Havens?, Journal of Public Economics 93(9-10), 1058–1068. Erokhin … 2024. The Impact of CFC Rules and GILTY on Tax Havens. Schjelderup, Guttorm and Stähler, Frank, 2023 …
EU: European Union · 21 March 2024 English
thresholds for cash payments; ▶ Update the list of tax havens; ▶ Implement a ban on “double-use software”; …
UNU WIDER: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research · 20 March 2024 English
WIDER Working Paper 2024/15-Offshore tax evasion in developing countries: Evidence and policy discussion
Niels Johannesen* March 2024 Abstract: Offshore tax havens cause large losses of government revenue by facilitating … offshore tax havens: a range of indicators suggests that wealth held in offshore tax havens, measured … financial transparency. Key words: tax evasion, tax havens, information exchange, tax enforcement, offshore … keynote lecture entitled ‘The challenge of offshore tax havens’ given at the WIDER Development Conference ‘Revving … annesen-challenge-offshore-tax-havens 1 Introduction Offshore tax havens with financial secrecy and low …
Cato Institute · 19 March 2024 English
An important facet of globalization is national governments' vigorous competition for capital and jobs via economic policy, including tax policy. Healthy tax competition underpins globalization, driving cross- border investment that …
2020 (compared to the often‐ cited 65 percent tax havensʼ share of US foreign profits). Following the 2017 … tax cut, the share of total income reported in tax havens fell to its lowest level in a decade. The race‐ … would expect a much higher share of profits in tax havens and near‐ universal use of low‐ tax foreign affiliates …
GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 19 March 2024 English
The reports reflect the views of the participants and the overall discussion, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. [...] For example, internal corruption was found to …
because global flows of money are moving away from tax havens in the EU and US (although these remain important) …