By Xavier Caño Tamayo
The Papers of Panama, the list Falciani, Tax Justice Network global, Oxfam, and other entities, civic and social have been unearthed in recent times, and documented, the enormity and severity of the tax evasion, as well as money laundering, illicit, corrupt and criminal. A tax evasion, which acts as an industry, possible because there are tax havens; such as well or territories and offshore jurisdictions. It is not a question of names.
Places where the banking secrecy, anonymity and opacity of the financial flows and capital are dogmas indisputable of mandatory compliance for those who create companies screen, move capital and execute financial transactions. Features more than sufficient to identify tax havens under any name.
bank Secrecy and darkness financial allow large fortunes, large corporations, multinational corporations and large foundations to hide and camouflage capital and profits to evade taxes. With impunity. Evasion, to circumvent tax structures and entities that promote and make it possible to carry way of being great enemies of mankind.
tax evasion is a serious offence whose consequences are paid day after day, hundreds, even thousands, of millions of people. Let us not forget that currently more than 1,300 million people in the world survive on less than a dollar a day and 2,800 million of them on less than two dollars. More than half of the entire population survives in undeniable poverty. And that poverty has to do with the financial weakness of the States for tax evasion.
According to the Network for Global Justice, in 2015 the three major tax havens were Switzerland, Hong Kong and the USA. Followed closely by the Uk (with its dark City financial its territories and dependencies, offshore, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Malta, Cyprus, Singapore, Liberia and Panama. Scandalous. It turns out that some of the more developed states, and others who go through very democratic promote and facilitate the crime of tax evasion. Which shows the considerable impediments that there are to end the tax havens, although that difficulty is not a reason not to act against them.
These days, two proposals are very different levels, we propose a effective action against tax havens and tax evasion that facilitate. The initiative of Oxfam Intermón convince and mobilize municipal governments to cancel or avoid the economic relations and contracts with companies, banks or other financial entities that have some link with tax havens. Favoring those who pay the taxes that are due. The campaign 'Free Zones, Tax Havens' proposed as a deterrent to the local councils not even consider bids of works and municipal services companies with offices or subsidiaries in tax havens.
And in scope, more international, the United Nations Alfred de Zayas, a jurist and human rights expert, has presented a report to the General Assembly of the UN, on tax havens and its consequences for humanity. De Zayas has asked Antonio Guterres, the new UN Secretary-General from the next one in January, that the United Nations take the lead in international action to outlaw tax havens, which facilitate tax evasion, corruption and money laundering. And to end abuses and crimes of speculators, hedge funds and multinational corporations that evade taxes and plunder governments.
De Zayas has asked the UN General Assembly to convene and organize a convention to adopt measures that proscriban tax havens around the world. The report of De Zayas reports that in the tax havens hidden 32 trillion dollars that do not pay taxes. Unacceptable reality that havens make it possible and it is because of that the government lost three trillion dollars a year for tax evasion.
The report against tax havens and tax evasion proposes to create under the auspices of the UN through international legal binding that determines the fiscal responsibility of companies and corporations, and ensure that pay the taxes that corresponds to them from which they derive benefits. With an express prohibition and sanction of transferring these benefits to other countries with more benevolent tax to pay fewer taxes.
Perish very difficult task, but as said by Nelson Mandela, some purposes seem impossible until they are achieved.
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