The list of world's rich:

http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2005/3/21/212145/273

I think the list is faulty because it seems that you can become a significant billionaire just by handling the money of other billionaires.

on Chinese in the Caribbean

http://agonist.org/story/2005/3/18/142712/413

Tax Break Bringing Businesses, and Fraud, to the Virgin Islands

http://agonist.org/story/2004/9/17/214258/419

Business Sees Gain In GOP Takeover

Jim VandeHei | Washington DC | March 27

Washington Post - Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century.

 "These are not real high-profile, sexy issues like the war or Social Security, but these are issues that have huge economic consequences," said Charles R. Black Jr., a GOP lobbyist and one of the president's top fundraisers. "And there is more to come on that score."

Bush and his congressional allies are looking to pass legal protections for drug companies, doctors, gun manufacturers and asbestos makers, as well as tax breaks for all companies and energy-related assistance sought by the oil and gas industry.

Is one great user of fiscal haven. Well not oficially. Oficially  his son is. The most outrageous here is not that much they send their money there as much that they find ways to bring it back here and pay no tax on it.

The real thief are well hidden and protected.

If my governement enforced the fiscal laws, they would be buried under monwy, so much they would not find what to do with it.

Did I ever mentionned that Montreal is one of the biggest city for money laudering ? Canada is the wild west of money laudering and tax evasion.

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/030401_csl/tax.html

$ 1.5 Billion in off shore havens as well.

US IRS recovers $3.2 bln from shelter settlement

Washington DC | March 24

Reuters - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has recovered $3.2 billion in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties from users of the illegal "Son of Boss" tax shelter, the agency said on Thursday.

The IRS deemed Son of Boss abusive in 2000 and has said it resulted in more than $6 billion in estimated understatements of taxes due from some 1,800 taxpayers. These were mostly wealthy individuals such as corporate executives seeking to shelter huge gains from business or stock sales during the late 1990s market boom.

(IRS Commissioner Mark) Everson said there were "well-known" corporations and prominent individuals who participated in the scheme, but declined to name any of them. Some had to sell villas and yachts to make their tax payments, he said.

Mercy me. You have to feel for them, what with the inconvenience and such.

The typical settlement payment was almost $1 million, with 18 tax payers paying more then $20 million each and one paying over $100 million. The three largest settlements together came to $270 million.

In addition to the federal recoveries, the IRS said information shared with states on Son of Boss has resulted in the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars in state taxes. California has collected $132 million from Son of Boss participants, while New York has collected $45 million.

If my governement enforced the fiscal laws, they would be buried under monwy, so much they would not find what to do with it.

And they too are not going to do anything.

Sometimes an ordinary human being cathes a glimpse how the world operates. This is the only even theoretical use for these kind of news.

After 9/11 the US government tried to control more tax and accounting paradises but of course for a vain attempt.

The money in tax paradises is mostly abstract and theoretical money. If it would suddenly evaporate, hardly anybody would notice.