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Tax Havens Under Siege

Andrew Watt, Managing Director, Tax Disputes and Investigations, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK LLP, looks at HMRC's recent strategy on gathering information on offshore arrangements

 
Andrew Watt Managing Director Tax Disputes and Investigations Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK LLP looks at HMRC's recent strategy on gathering information on offshore arrangements
 
In 2002 the OECD published a list of seven unco-operative tax havens. These were identified because of their failure to co-operate in the bilateral exchange of tax information and to meet international transparency standards. At the present time only three countries remain on that list: Andorra Monaco and Liechtenstein.
 
It has to be stressed that there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong in the use of a structure established in a tax haven. However events of the last few...

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