Pambazuka - Globalising economic apartheid - 1 views
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the presence of tax havens, whether specialising in corporate or maritime services, consistently undermines national and international rule-of-law. This was the case with the capitalist apartheid regime in South Africa, who circumvented oil sanctions through the 'socialist' government of Seychelles. The Iranian revolution evidenced the fall of the US-backed Shah, depriving the apartheid regime of secure oil supplies.
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By pyramiding holding companies in jurisdictions characterised by secrecy, the corporate beneficiaries of the apartheid regime were able to access resources and labour on the cheap, while easily navigating global sanctions.
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Not much has changed when it comes to the use of secrecy jurisdictions as a means of looting African minerals. Until recently, Sierra Leone’s diamond industry was dominated by two firms: SLDC and Koidu Holdings. The latter was wholly owned by two entities based in tax havens, both of which are directly connected to the UK: Guernsey and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) through BSG Resources, recently implicated as a potential funder for Zimbabwe's Marange fields (via Canadile).
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As Fidelity Corporate Services stated, bearer shares ‘represent the ultimate way of ensuring the anonymity of offshore company owners’. To better state the obvious, Fidelity articulated why corporations should maintain entities in tax havens: ‘Tax avoidance generally means creating and organising such business structure which would pay minimum possible amount of taxes without breaking the law. All international offshore financial services industry which is functioning on a legal basis is about tax avoidance and not about tax evasion.’
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