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In July 2012, following a study into wealthy individuals with offshore accounts, the Tax Justice Network published claims regarding deposits worth at least $21 trillion (£13 trillion), potentially even $32 trillion, in secretive tax havens. As a result, governments suffer a lack of income taxes of up to $280 billion. [6] [7] [8]
The Tax Justice Network ranks the US third in terms of the secrecy and scale of its offshore financial industry, behind Switzerland and Hong Kong but ahead of the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg. [2] The United States has been popular as a destination for offshore funds for Chinese investors, said Canadian financial crimes expert Bill Majcher ...
Offshore tax havens used by individuals and corporations cost governments trillions of dollars annually. ... A Financial Secrecy Index produced by the Tax Justice Network ranks Switzerland and the ...
While related to tax havens, the FSI is not a list of tax havens per se, and it does not attempt to estimate actual taxes avoided or profits shifted, unlike the techniques used in compilation of modern tax haven lists. The FSI is therefore more correctly a list of financial secrecy jurisdictions. While having many similarities to tax havens ...
The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S. taxes if they ...
The outlook for systemic global tax reform. While the Tax Justice Network was initially hopeful that OECD tax reform efforts that started a decade ago might reduce global tax abuse, those efforts ...
It addresses tax evasion, tax havens, offshore financial centres, tax information exchange agreements, double taxation and money laundering. In 2000, the Forum published a blacklist of 35 tax havens, which by 2009 had shrunk to zero. It has since focused on increasing the standard for exchange of information.
(↕) Identified on the European Union's first 2017 list of 17 tax havens; the above list contains 8 of the 17. [61] (Δ) Identified on the first, and the largest, OECD 2000 list of 35 tax havens (the OECD list only contained Trinidad & Tobago by 2017); the above list contains 34 of the 35 (U.S. Virgin Islands missing). [29]