Secrecy Savannah: Is Kenya being Shaped into Africa’s Flagship Tax Haven? Kirk ,Martin Gathoni ,Blessol CAPITAL FLIGHT INEQUALITY TAX EVASION TAX HAVENS TAXES Kenya has been touted as a future tax haven in light of $21-32 trillion has been siphoned off into tax havens, and emerging evidence to suggest the City of London is trying to make Kenya the world`s next tax avoidance hub. The sheer scale of corporate power and the importance of tax havens to it is overwhelming. Tax havens exist for one purpose only: to provide a way for the rich to get around the taxes that pay for the infrastructure and services on which everyone rely. Tax havens have become, over the last 30 years, a key driver of vast inequalities around the world. The system has grown so big that it is now an arterial drain on public budgets everywhere.The global tax haven system is a network with many parts, and the more parts, the more extensive and powerful the network. London Think Africa Press 2013. 2013. Text 4p. http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/secrecy_savannah_is_kenya_being_shaped_into_africa’s_flagship_tax_haven.docx.pdf