DemocracyNow.org - As millions of Americans prepare to file their income taxes ahead of Monday's deadline, Democracy Now! interviews British journalist Nicholas Shaxson on how corporations and the wealthy use offshore banks and tax havens to avoid paying taxes and other governmental regulations. "Tax havens have grown so fast in the era of globalization since the 1970s that they have become at the heart of the global economy and are absolutely huge," Shaxson says.
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Nicholas Shaxson: "Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking
A documentary on tax havens and Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, a man who broke the Cayman bank secrecy law by publishing sensitive client data from Bank Julius Baer on WikiLeaks. Back in Switzerland he has been stalked by private investigators
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A leak in paradise (teaser) - Coming in 2012
'The Rise and Rise of Britain's Tax Haven Empire' - John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network speaking in Stroud's Subscription Rooms on 20th January 2011. A talk organised by Stroud Commonwealth and Transition Stroud. Filmed in 6 parts with part 5 being an interview with John and part 6 some of the comments and questions from the evening.
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Tax Havens part 5: Interview with John Christensen
Executive training seminars of the Academy of Global Governance on Tax Heavens, 8-10 June 2011, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
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Clemens Fuest (Oxford University) "Tax Havens and the Economic Perspective"
TheCarroll Foundation Trust and parallel Carroll Maryland Trust cases have revealed that Gibraltar is now understood to be one of three offshore tax haven locations which effectively impulsed this massive tax fraud heist operation which stretches the globe. Sources have confirmed that the FBI and Scotland Yard elite law enforcement officers charged with this case of international importance have recently obtained further Carroll Trust dossiers that contain a startling litany of forged and falsified corporations directly linked to fraudulent HSBC International offshore numbered bank accounts incorporated in Gibraltar and the City of London. It has emerged that the trust's underlying London
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Tax Havens Sensational Footage FBI Fugitive *Suspect Gibraltar Bank Accounts