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National day for mobilization against tax havens
If you are interested in Tax Havens issue, please have a look to the section of ATTAC France website in English.
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Introduction
In Brittany and in the Pyrenees, the haven-hunting season begins on June the 9th. This action is part of the campaign "2001 - Europe: Tobin Now!"
In the west of France, this will be at St Malo and St Helier (on Jersey). The programme includes information and training sessions, demonstrations, conference/debates and other events and a fleet of activists sailing to Jersey. With 200 delegates representing ATTAC's branch groups and other organisations, there will probably be participants from the USA but also people from different European countries will come to the port in St Helier to meet with the local authorities and to take part in actions to raise people's awareness of the problems caused by tax havens in the world and in the European Union in particular. In the south-west of France there will be demonstrations near Andorra and, if possible, in Andorra itself. We are considering a number of ideas which will make our plans as effective as possible. It should be said that Jacques Chirac, as President of the French Republic is Co-Prince of Andorra! For more information contact attac09@attac.org By the tax benefits they give their clients but also by the bank secrecy and immunity from prosecution they provide, these 'havens' play a vital role in the globalisation of criminal financial activities. Numbering between 60 and 90, tax havens and financial safe-havens are micro-territories or states with lax or inexistant legislation. One of the characteristics they share is their unlimited acceptance of capital in anonymity. Finance. Money-laundering, tax evasion. Corruption, security agencies, the registration of sea-going vessels in different countries... There are many who seek to conceal all or a part of their revenue from other people, and especially from the eyes of public authorities (fiscal, financial, judicial and police). The revenue concerned may have been gained legally or illegally. These practices occur inside each national territory, exploiting legislative, regulatory, administrative and judicial weaknesses. But they also develop at a national level. The present situation is often the result of tolerance, laxity and even leniency on the part of governments. Organizations Calling for this Day of Action Attac Austria, Attac Belgium, Attac Spain, Attac France, Attac Netherlands, Attac Ireland, Attac Poland, Attac Switzerland, CFDT-Banques, CGT Finances, SNUI (Syndicat National Unifié des Impôts) Local Chapters ATTAC Avranches, Caen, Cherbourg, Dinan, Finistère, Morbihan, Rennes, Saint Brieuc, Saint Lô, Saint Malo, Trégor Translation: Philip Deer, volunteer translator coorditrad@attac.org |
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