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"From 2000 to 2012 over 170 billion euros were transferred from Portugal into tax havens - and that is just the part officially recorded.
- Mr. Juncker - Fight Corruption & Money Laundering!
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No website do Real Instituto Elcano, um "think tank" espanhol, pode ver-se um interessante estudo de William Chislet, intitulado "Portugal and Spain: From Distant Neighbours to Uneasy Associates", sobre as relações entre Portugal e Espanha na actualidade....
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Fighting tax evasion and avoidance
"From 2000 to 2012 over 170 billion euros were transferred from Portugal into tax havens - and that is just the part officially recorded.
Tax evaders and avoiders were aided by banks, lawyers and financial experts whom the Portuguese governments also regularly hired to outsource to them, supposedly,the defense of State interests - all ending up usually in corrupt contracts and laws full of loopholes to assist tax criminals.
Last year, already with the country under bail-out, with taxes drastically raised on the people who pay them, the Portuguese Government afforded a "tax amnesty" to tax criminals, allowing them to keep secrecy and pay a ridiculous fine of 7.5% to legalize and keep, mostly in Swizerland, more than 3.4 billion euros. Not even demanding repatriation of capital! And all with Troika blessing!...
Lagarde lists, Liechtenstein lists served actually only to protect tax criminals and shroud them in even more secrecy by Portuguese authorities.
Automatic exchange of information is indeed essential at the EU and global levels. Austria and Luxembourg must be named and shamed for obstructing it.
EU Government members and any experts who protect or assist tax criminals must be exposed, tried and exemplarily punished".
(My one minute statement at EP debate today, on fighting tax fraud and evasion, to be discussed by EU Council tomorrow.
I had no time to utter the two last sentences. But here they are)
- Mr. Juncker - Fight Corruption & Money Laundering!
Mr. Juncker, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, despite strong reservations about some of your Commissioners.We will keep your Commission under vigilance. Besides the 300 billion euros put into a strategic investiment plan for growth and jobs,...
- Portugal E O Zimbabwe
"Top story" ontem no "EUROPEAN VOICE" (jornal muito lido em Bruxelas, com excelentes fontes em todas as instituições europeias): "EU backs African efforts to defuse Zimbabwe crisis Facing threats that they will be expelled from Zimbabwe if they support...
- Parceiros Desconfortáveis
No website do Real Instituto Elcano, um "think tank" espanhol, pode ver-se um interessante estudo de William Chislet, intitulado "Portugal and Spain: From Distant Neighbours to Uneasy Associates", sobre as relações entre Portugal e Espanha na actualidade....
- A Path To Victory In The Drug War
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, WSJ Brazil's Fernando Henrique Cardoso on why legalization of marijuana will reduce the cartels' threat to Latin democracies The classical argument in favor of marijuana legalization rests on personal liberty. Why,...
- Brazil’s Business Environment: Baby Steps
The Economist AROUND 11am on September 13th, a “1” followed by 12 zeros lit up on a sign in downtown São Paulo. Brazil’s impostômetro (taxometer) hit one trillion reais ($582 billion) 35 days earlier this year than in 2010. Brazil’s tax take...