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About the author nicholas shaxson is the author of poisoned wells, the dirty politics of african oil, and an experienced journalist who has written regularly for the financial times, the economist. Tax havens and the men who stole the world 2011 is a nonfiction book about the secretive role of offshore banks and tax havens in global economic affairs. Treasure islands offers insight into one of the darkest parts of the financial world. In treasure islands, nicholas shaxson shows how this happened, and what this means for you. Author nicholas shaxson has undertaken a big task with the book treasure islands. Uncovering the damage of offshore banking and tax havens. This is, in one sense, a dismaying big bang of a book. Tax information statement current ti players club members can access annual winloss statements by logging on to their account online.
Kudrle t wo recent works with the same title suggest radically different views of the role of tax havens in the global economy. Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs. He is best known for his investigative books poisoned wells 2007 and treasure islands 2011. It also stops to occasionally acknowledge the advantages that a half century of international deregulation has handed to contemporary transnational criminals. One of these shows up, frightening billy who drinks far too much rum into a stroke, and. He has worked as a parttime writer and researcher for the tax justice network, an expertled lobbying group focused on the harmful impacts of tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens. Treasure islands was released in the uk in january and quickly became a best selling nonfiction book. Shaxton has done a lot of travelling to these places and explains to us how they have become a fixture of the international marketplace. Treasure island, classic adventure novel by robert louis stevenson that was serialized in the magazine young folks in 188182 under the title the seacook.
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Treasure islands brilliantly articulates the problem in a completely new way, and exposes the deep corruption that impacts on our daily lives. Writing a book on the dodgy nature of tax havens is, in the current climate. Although i have had some experience with the subject before, i was shocked at the scale that tax fraud and secrecy has reached. Tax havens and the men who stole the world, by nicholas shaxson, bodley head, rrp. Treasure islands and global tax dodgers beacon broadside.
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