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 отправлено 13 Янв 2005 11:37:19 AM
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Here's 2 articles that do a good deal of explaining why "war on drugs", "money launderng", "anti-terrorizm" and other concepts that World Governments are trying to impose are there to just collect more tax. They also go into describing offshore tax heavens, and how U.S. and EU governemtns "work" on destroying them.
DEATH BY TAXES By Richard Teather
Tax breaks are weapon of choice in fight to win investors by Vanessa Houlder, Financial Times
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отправлено 17 Мар 2005 1:01:02 PM
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Perhaps American pop idol Britney Spears is a student of US political history, but based on my distant observation, I'd guess the odds are against that.
I say that because one of her frothy CD musical renditions last year was entitled: "Do Something." That same phrase has been the repeated slogan of US politicians of all stripes ever since the miserably failed "war on drugs" began. Thus the pols gave us "3 strikes" laws, civil asset forfeiture, mandatory sentencing, hundreds of thousand of prison inmates
costing millions of dollars and that most elastic of all crimes, "money laundering."
The same goes for the misguided "war on terrorism" - political "do somethings" from Bush on down have imposed on us the PATRIOT Act, shredded the US Constitution and made us all suspects, unless we can prove ourselves innocent.
One of the early attempts by the US Congress to look tough against drugs came in 1961. The Capitol Hill worthies ordered the US State Dept. to produce an annual "narcotics control" report on each and every country in the world, rating their efforts to combat "money laundering" - the
idea being that a lax attitude on dirty money meant a country should get no US foreign aid.
The 19th annual report is now out and nations everywhere are again offended at the self-serving judgments of faceless US bureaucrats. Our friend Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation notes that only 10 of the 55 nations of "primary concern" named in the report are tax havens, but all of the major G-7, (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, US and UK), plus many OECD nations, are on State's 2005 dirty
money list. Yet only the tax havens have been "blacklisted" by the OECD/FATF for alleged dirty money, while the G-7 that runs the OECD blacklisters, hold themselves blameless.
The point? The US and the major nations have repeatedly used false accusations of money laundering to smear tax havens, while the huge majority of criminal cash flows through New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. The hypocritical accusers are themselves at fault. But they're not so worried about dirty cash as they are about losing legally avoided taxes.
Tax havens have reformed, tightened and expanded their anti-money laundering laws. Most havens deserve gold stars for their very real efforts to curb criminal cash, not phony blacklisting.
We recommend selected tax havens for stronger asset protection, greater financial privacy and access to more profitable investments.
That's the way that it looks from here.
(c)BOB BAUMAN, Sovereign Society
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отправлено 16 Мая 2005 11:59:46 AM
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Interestingly enough, Panama and Switzerland are constatly cited by various offshore "experts" as great places to move your money.
It is no longer so with Switzerland, as it now has an agreement with USA to freeze your assets and split YOU money 3 ways based on a simple claim from US authorities that you violated a US law. Good luck proving otherwise!  
With Panama, I am confused too. They are trying to make me to believe that they no longer have certain agents in that country - the contry that they physically controlled for some 96 odd years?  
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отправлено 7 Июн 2005 12:42:18 PM
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Конфиденциальность ваших разговоров с адвокатом может быть под сомнением:
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On June 19, 2003, a U.S. District Court judge in Chicago ordered one of the largest U.S. law firms to disclose to the Internal Revenue Service the names of about 700 clients who received tax shelter advice from attorneys at the firm.
The IRS has in recent years greatly increased its use of such 'John Doe' summonses. Beginning in 2000, it employed them when seeking information on thousands of holders of offshore bank account credit cards from American Express, VISA and MasterCard. But the IRS has reportedly never used this highhanded tactic against a law firm.
The law firm, Jenkens & Gilchrist - one of the nation's largest - has refused to comply with the unprecedented court order, saying it will fight it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Americans have a right to consult with an attorney in confidence, and only the clients themselves can waive that right," a spokesman for the firm said, adding that it expected the courts to uphold its position. The IRS position, of course, is that it is seeking evidence about tax shelters which its alleges are illegal.
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