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JDPriestly

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1. Tax havens are a problem for everyone in the world.

Reply to antiquie (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:07 PM

Jul 2013

That is especially true in countries that have laws that protect tax cheats from discovery.

Every once in a while the leader of an impoverished country dies and we learn that he or she (usually he) had a big bank account in some tax haven in the world. And where did that money come from? It's usually hard to say.

And yet, I do think people should enjoy privacy in their lives.

If the US is scooping up the communications data around the world, seems to me the US would know who sends money to what bank.

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Latvia and the Euro: Meet the EU's Newest Tax Haven [View all] antiquie Jul 2013 OP

Tax havens are a problem for everyone in the world. JDPriestly Jul 2013 #1

I agree, if you "play by the rules" you deserve privacy. antiquie Jul 2013 #2