01295nam a2200133   4500100002200000245009100022260004700113300000900160520069900169650013600868856013701004942000701141999001301148  aChristensen, John  aFollow the Money HowTax Havens Facilitate Dirty Money Flows and Distort Global Markets  aUnited KingdombTax Justice Network c2006  a13p.  aThe elephant in the living room of the corruption debate is the role played by the global infrastructure of banks, legal and accounting businesses, tax havens and related financial intermediaries in providing an offshore interface between the illicit and the licit economies. This interface facilitates capital flight and tax evasion, distorts global markets to the disadvantage of innovation and entrepreneurship, slows economic growth by rewarding freeriding and mis-directing investment, and increases global inequality. The offshore interface functions through collusion between private sector financial intermediaries and the governments of states which host offshore tax haven activities.  aCapital flight Tax havens Corruption Infrastructures Investments Offshore Fraud Mispricing Money laundering Overpricing Tax evasion  uhttp://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/follow_the_money_how_tax_havens_facilitate_dirty_money_flows_and_distort_global_markets.pdf  cCF  c206d206