Tax Havens And Sovereignty In The Pacific Islands

Author : Anthony B. Van Fossen
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 192190223X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands written by Anthony B. Van Fossen and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years many countries in Oceania have developed tax havens. Using their sovereignty, Pacific Islands countries have profited by providing offshore havens from metropolitan taxation and regulation. Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands surveys the timely, important and controversial topic of Pacific Islands tax havens - havens currently holding hundreds of billions of dollars.

Author : Anthony Van Fossen
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 : 9781921902215
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tax Havens written by Anthony Van Fossen and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2012 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many countries in Oceania have developed tax havens, profiting by providing offshore havens from metropolitan taxation and regulation and this account surveys the timely, important, and controversial topic of Pacific Islands’ tax havens, which currently hold hundreds of billions of dollars. Exploring the range of financial mechanisms used—including offshore companies and banks, maritime flags of convenience, and laundering—this book also delineates the international regulatory attempts that have been made with limited success. Arguing that at the core of these large financial transactions is Pacific Islands sovereignty within the international community and its rights to maintain its own tax and regulatory systems without outside interference, this discussion is an essential resource of economic research.

Author : Anthony Van Fossen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459691940
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands (Large Print 16pt) written by Anthony Van Fossen and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years many countries in Oceania have developed tax havens. Using their sovereignty, Pacific Islands countries have profited by providing offshore havens from metropolitan taxation and regulation. Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands surveys the timely, important and controversial topic of Pacific Islands tax havens - havens currently holding hundreds of billions of dollars.

Author : J. C. Sharman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732900
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havens in a Storm written by J. C. Sharman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to impose common tax regulations on more than three dozen small states. In a fascinating book based on fieldwork and interviews in twenty-two countries in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, J. C. Sharman shows how the struggle was decided in favor of the tax havens, which eventually avoided common regulation. No other book on tax havens is based on such extensive fieldwork, and no other author has had access to so many of the key decision makers who played roles in the conflict between onshore and offshore Sharman suggests that microstates succeeded in their struggle with great powers because of their astute deployment of reputation and effective rhetorical self-positioning. In effect, they persuaded a transnational audience that the OECD was being untrue to its own values by engaging in a hypocritical, bullying exercise inimical to free competition.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264162941
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmful Tax Competition An Emerging Global Issue written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax competition in the form of harmful tax practices can distort trade and investment patterns, erode national tax bases and shift part of the tax burden onto less mobile tax bases. The Report emphasises that governments must intensify their cooperative actions to curb harmful tax practices.

Author : Michael Bowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317741048
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banking and Finance in Islands and Small States written by Michael Bowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyzes the special characteristics of the banking and financial sectors in islands and small states, and focuses on three main areas: the general financial environment; offshore financial centres; and banking and financial regulation. The main emphasis is on territories where banking and financial activity make a substantial contribution to gross domestic product.

Author : Raymond Craib
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629639273
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure Capitalism written by Raymond Craib and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.

Author : Jane Gravelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tax Havens written by Jane Gravelle and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the State of the Union address, which is a communication between the President and Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current conditions of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.

Author : William Vlcek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137561815
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshore Finance and Global Governance written by William Vlcek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes shifting international taxation strategies in pursuit of tax nomads, individuals and companies who minimize their tax obligations among multiple countries. Focusing on the efforts of the United States, the collective endeavours of the European Union and the global initiative of the OECD under G20 guidance, it investigates their attempts to understand and control the mechanisms employed by such nomads. The author directs particular attention to intellectual property, used by multinational corporations to move income from high-tax to low-tax locations. Contrary to claims that globalization hinders tax collection, Vlcek argues that state sovereignty and state power remain the defining characteristic of international taxation. The EU and OECD in turn, he concludes, are leveraging cooperation with the US to force other countries to share taxpayer information with them. This significant work will interest economists, political scientists and tax experts. /div

Author : Harry Hobbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009156950
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty written by Harry Hobbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political disagreement is a fact of life. It can prompt people to stand for public office and agitate for political change. Others take a different route; they start their own nation. Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty is the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of people purporting to secede and create their own country. It analyses why micronations are not states for the purposes of international law, considers the factors that motivate individuals to separate and found their own nation, examines the legal justifications that they offer and explores the responses of recognised sovereign states. In doing so, this book develops a rich body of material through which to reflect on conventional understandings of statehood, sovereignty and legitimate authority. Authored in a lively and accessible style, Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty will be valuable reading for scholars and general audiences.