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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Offshore Jurisdictions by : Walter Otto Ötsch
Download or read book The Political Economy of Offshore Jurisdictions written by Walter Otto Ötsch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides first information about a little-studied area. What is the importance of the offshore economy? Is online Gambling a Game Changer to Money Laundering? What is the rationale behind the Secrecy Index of Tax Justice Network? How does Automatic Tax Information Exchange function? Is Austria a tax haven? With which ideology and with which narratives was it possible to avoid public discussions about the offshore economy?"--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Offshore World written by Ronen Palan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable "offshore" banking center. Indeed, it is estimated that half of the global stock of money passes through tax havens. The logic of the offshore world, where millionaires and corporations roam in search of financial advantage, is slippery. It challenges many conventional assumptions about power and economics.In the single most comprehensive account of the offshore economy, Ronen Palan investigates the legal spaces, unregulated and yet maintained and supported by the state system, that have emerged for purposes of international finance, tax havens, export processing zones, flags of convenience, and e-commerce. The offshore economy had its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, saw early development after the First World War, and metastasized in the 1970s. Palan believes that a rapidly expanding offshore economy is now producing a new market in sovereignty; states have discovered that their rights to write law may be used as a commercial asset. This commercialization of sovereignty, he asserts, undermines the legitimacy of the nation-state and supports a form of nomadic capitalism.
Book Synopsis Offshore Finance and Small States by : W. Vlcek
Download or read book Offshore Finance and Small States written by W. Vlcek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an international initiative for the exchange of taxpayer information.
Book Synopsis Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century by : Sébastien Chauvin
Download or read book Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century written by Sébastien Chauvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean, namely the British, Dutch and French overseas territories. Although known and perhaps infamous for their role as high-end tourist destinations and financial centres, these small jurisdictions are complex and multifaceted places. While this volume considers their role as financial centres, it does so from alternative and original perspectives by examining how the sector shapes the internal dynamics of these Caribbean societies, and how it is itself shaped by global trends. A range of contributions is included that highlight other key issues. Political relations between the territories and their metropolitan centres and with the European Union are the focus of several chapters, highlighting the stresses and strains, and in many cases the unfulfilled expectations of devolved governance. Further chapters describe the economic instability and factors of political conflict faced by some of these societies and the available options to address them. Finally, several chapters reflect more specifically on the territories’ internal social and ethnic dynamics, and the hierarchies and inequalities that result. Bringing together a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, from political science to sociology, and from anthropology to geography, this book will be of great interest to any academic or student who wishes to see how an often overlooked part of the world is actually a key site of socio-economic transformation and a crucial nexus in global affairs. Sébastien Chauvin is a sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Institut des Sciences Sociales at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research deals with immigration, citizenship, gender, sexuality, law and labour in France and the USA. With Bruno Cousin, he has also developed a multi-sited research programme on social and symbolic capital and the cultural sociology of economic élites, with a focus on Western Europe (élite male social club sociability), the Caribbean region (Saint-Barthélemy), and new forms of conspicuous consumption among the global super-rich. His other ongoing writing explores the intersections of race, nationalism, sexuality and citizenship in the Netherlands, France and the USA. Peter Clegg is Associate Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He was formerly Visiting Research Fellow at both KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Netherlands, and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His main research interests focus on contemporary developments within the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and the international political economy of the Caribbean. Bruno Cousin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, France, and an affiliate of the Centre of European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Lille, France, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA, and has held visiting positions at NYU, the University of Amsterdam and Birkbeck. His research interests focus on class relations, residential segregation, social capital and forms of bourgeois sociability, and the modes of élites’ legitimization. He is currently conducting research with Sébastien Chauvin on Saint-Barthélemy (French West Indies), whose first results have been published in Ethnologie française and Geographies of the Super-Rich (2013), and he has recently co-authored Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres (2017).
Book Synopsis International Political Economy of Offshore Financial Centres and Tax Havens by : Mark Anthony Rivers-Bland
Download or read book International Political Economy of Offshore Financial Centres and Tax Havens written by Mark Anthony Rivers-Bland and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Offshore Finance and Global Governance by : William Vlcek
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 190 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
Book Synopsis Tax Havens and Offshore Finance by : Richard Anthony Johns
Download or read book Tax Havens and Offshore Finance written by Richard Anthony Johns and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Havens in a Storm by : J. C. Sharman
Download or read book Havens in a Storm written by J. C. Sharman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 224 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.
Book Synopsis Tax Havens and Offshore Finance by : Richard Anthony Johns
Download or read book Tax Havens and Offshore Finance written by Richard Anthony Johns and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Uneven Offshore World by : Justin Robertson
Download or read book The Uneven Offshore World written by Justin Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by world-systems analysis, this book examines the shifting patterns of accommodation and resistance to the offshore world, with a particular focus on Mauritius as a critical but underappreciated offshore node mediating foreign investment into India and Africa. Drawing on a large pool of financial data and elite interviews, the authors present the first detailed comparative study of the Mauritius–India and Mauritius–Africa offshore relationships. These relationships serve as indicative test cases of the contemporary global tax reform agenda and its promise to rein in offshore finance. Whereas India’s economic power and multilateral track record have enabled it to actively shape this agenda and implement it in a robust manner, most African countries have found themselves either unable to meet its stringent criteria or unwilling to do so out of fear that it might discourage investment. Its impact on offshore financial centers has likewise been limited. A few of the least sophisticated ones appear to have fallen by the wayside, but the rest have either remained largely unaffected, or, like Mauritius, succeeded in consolidating their operations and surviving the current round of regulatory headwinds. The findings suggest that the contemporary global tax reform agenda has thus far not only failed to make good on its promise but also actually reinforced numerous existing power hierarchies. The Uneven Offshore World is written in an accessible style and aimed at readers without specialized knowledge of tax issues.
Book Synopsis Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens by : Jason P Abbottd
Download or read book Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens written by Jason P Abbottd and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offshore finance has transformed many small jurisdictions into high income economies and has facilitated the growth of global financial markets, deregulation and the convergence of economic policies worldwide. However, the volatility and fickle nature of global capital has also become apparent. This major new multi-disciplinary and international collection explores the development of offshore finance and is an extremely valuable resource for all those considering the issues involved in this important area.
Book Synopsis Political Economy of Offshore Finance by : Maxim Ananyev
Download or read book Political Economy of Offshore Finance written by Maxim Ananyev and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyzes the patterns of business elites' offshore usage and its impact on domestic politics. I advance two theoretical claims. First, the availability of offshore zones makes autocracies stronger by facilitating patron-client exchanges that keep regimes in power. Second, I argue that vulnerability to political risks prevents firms from using tax havens for tax avoidance. After providing some historical and economic background on the evolution of tax havens, I present a simple theory of patron-client exchange in autocracies that rely on a tax haven as a commitment device for a ruler. I argue that the availability of such a device makes elites more docile to the regime and prevents movements towards a more open and constrained regime. Then, I offer cross-national evidence that speaks to some of my theory's implications. In particular, I use previously untapped country-level data on the size of offshore holdings to test if offshore utilization prevents democratization. I find that the countries with higher offshore wealth in the year 2007 were less likely to democratize between 2007 and 2016. I show an array of placebo tests and robustness checks to demonstrate that my results are unlikely to be driven by previous regime dynamics, coup risk, or other potential confounders. Then, I move on to explore another important implication of my theory: an exogenous marginal decrease in the safety of offshore assets should trigger an increase in the spoils the ruler shares with the elite. I use recent rounds of international sanctions against the members of the Russian business community linked to the Russian regime to explore this empirical prediction. I also discuss corporate tax avoidance through tax havens. In particular, I ask why some firms avoid local taxes by establishing affiliates in tax havens while others do not. I argue that firms that are more vulnerable to political risk are less likely to engage in income shifting since complying fully with the tax law makes firms more valuable to the host government. I explore the empirical implications of my theory using a registry-based dataset that allows tracing connections between firms and tax havens. My findings improve our understanding of tax capacity and can inform international efforts to combat tax avoidance.
Book Synopsis The Offshore Interface by : Mark P. Hampton
Download or read book The Offshore Interface written by Mark P. Hampton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up the secret world of tax havens and offshore finance centres (OFCs), a vast offshore business valued at over one trillion US dollars. It is a timely and original analysis of the role of OFCs in the emerging global economy. The book discusses who uses OFCs, how OFCs work and what drives their development. Extensive use of case study material from Jersey illustrates the growth of a successful OFC and its impact upon a small island.
Book Synopsis Microstates and Offshore Finance by : Mark Hampton
Download or read book Microstates and Offshore Finance written by Mark Hampton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Offshore Financial Centres and the Law by : Dominic Thomas-James
Download or read book Offshore Financial Centres and the Law written by Dominic Thomas-James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ability of island jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their innocent (or otherwise) facilitation of the receipt of suspect wealth. In the global financial architecture, British Overseas Territories are of material significance. Through their inalienable right to self-determination, many developed offshore financial centres to achieve sustainable economic development. Focusing on Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, and Anguilla, the book concerns suspect wealth emanating from financial crimes including corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, as well as controversial conduct like tax avoidance. This work considers the viability of international standards on suspect wealth in the context of the territories, how willing or able they are to comply with them, and how their financial centres can better prevent receipt of suspect wealth. While universalism is desirable in the modern approach to tackling suspect wealth, a one-size-fits-all approach is inappropriate for these jurisdictions. On critically evaluating their legislative and regulatory regimes, the book advances that they demonstrate willingness to comply with international standards. However, their abilities and levels of compliance vary. In acknowledging the facilitatively harmful role the territories can play, this work draws upon evidence of implication in transnational financial crime cases. Notwithstanding this, the book questions whether the degree of criticism that these offshore jurisdictions have encountered is warranted in light of apparent willingness to engage in the enactment and administration of internationally accepted laws and cooperate with international institutions.
Book Synopsis Global Wealth Chains by : Leonard Seabrooke
Download or read book Global Wealth Chains written by Leonard Seabrooke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world economy operates around the production of value and the creation and protection of wealth. Firms and other actors use global value chains to make the most for the least cost, ideally also contributing to economic development. Firms and professionals use global wealth chains to create and protect wealth, strategically planning across multiple legal jurisdictions to control how assets are governed. The outcome of such planning often contributes to global inequality. While we know a great deal about value chains, we know much less about wealth chains. This volume explores how global wealth chains are articulated, issues of regulatory liability, and how social relationships between clients and service providers are important for governance issues. It explores how assets are governed across a range of sectors such as public utilities, food and alcohol, art, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in legal instruments like advance pricing agreements, tax treaties, regulatory standards, intellectual property, family trusts, and legal opinion. The book integrates insights from a range of disciplines including International Political Economy, Economic Geography, Sociology, Accounting, Management Studies, Anthropology, and Law to reveal how global wealth chains are used to govern assets in the world economy.
