They Can't Hide Us Anymore

They Can't Hide Us Anymore

Author: Richie Havens

Publisher: HarperEntertainment

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780380803781

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Havens reflects on his career, the music business, marine conservation and more.


Denial of Sanctuary

Denial of Sanctuary

Author: Michael A. Innes

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Examines not only the role of the state, but also that of the Internet, crime and border areas.


The Hidden Wealth of Nations

The Hidden Wealth of Nations

Author: Gabriel Zucman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 022624556X

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We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden in tax havens—in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands—this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world’s assets are currently hidden—until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world’s money held in tax havens. And it’s staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%—there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well the counter-argument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman’s work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world’s assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. If we are to find a way to solve the problem of increasing inequality, The Hidden Wealth of Nations is essential reading.


Haven

Haven

Author: Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2022-08-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1529091179

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A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room. 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet In seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? ‘Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book’ – Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ‘Beautiful and timely’ - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater ‘Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written’ – The Times ‘Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect’ – Margaret Atwood via Twitter ‘Book of the Year’ pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTÉ and The Times.


Quilted Havens

Quilted Havens

Author: Susan Purney-Mark

Publisher: American Quilter's Society

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781574327311

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From igloos to gingerbread houses and log cabins to Victorian manors, there is something in this quilt neighborhood for everyone. These Canadian authors present playful patterns of all sorts of dwellings, and they show you how to make a quilt or wallhanging featuring your very own home! Twelve wonderful projects offer a variety of techniques, sizes, and skill levels so that anyone, from confident beginner to advanced quiltmaker, can achieve success. Techniques include rotary cutting, template cutting and use, foundation piecing, applique, embroidery, and embellishments. General quiltmaking tips are also included.


Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Should Improve Its Reporting on Terrorist Safe Havens

Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Should Improve Its Reporting on Terrorist Safe Havens

Author: Charles Michael Johnson, Jr.

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1437986900

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Denying safe haven to terrorists has been a key national security concern since 2002. Safe havens allow terrorists to train recruits and plan operations against the U.S. and its interests across the globe. As a result, Congress has required agencies to provide detailed information regarding U.S. efforts to address terrorist safe havens. This report assesses the extent to which: (1) the Dept. of State (State) has identified and assessed terrorist safe havens in its Country Reports on Terrorism: and (2) the U.S. government has identified efforts to deny terrorists safe haven consistent with reporting requirements. To address these objectives, the report analyzed country-level plans for the Philippines, Somalia, and Yemen. Illus. A print on demand report.


Offshore Tax Havens

Offshore Tax Havens

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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Black Money and Tax Havens

Black Money and Tax Havens

Author: R Vaidyanathan

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9357085459

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Just how much black money is there in India? Estimates vary from 10 per cent to 20 per cent of our GDP. Conservatively, Rs 15 lakh crore (10 per cent of Rs 150 lakh crore, our GDP in 2016-17). As for Indian money in tax havens around the world? Around Rs 65 lakh crore. Truly astounding figures. Black money or kala dhan is a topic that has elicited much debate in recent times. This has been mostly marked by mudslinging and name-calling, and the discussions that have ensued often have no basis in fact. While most people have a hazy notion of black money, only a few understand it in its entirety. The issue of tax havens is perhaps even more misunderstood. Most people fail to see the connection between tax havens and black money. Black Money and Tax Havens is the first work that discusses both of these issues in depth and offers a 360-degree view to the reader. In this work, R. Vaidyanathan provides the reader with a brief overview of black money-its generation, its estimates and how and why it is spirited away to tax havens. He also lays bare the danger that is posed to world financial well-being on account of the lack of political will to tackle these issues. A unique and timely work, this book packs in much information in an accessible manner.


Havens in a Storm

Havens in a Storm

Author: Jason Campbell Sharman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780801445040

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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.


Denying Safe Havens

Denying Safe Havens

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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