At first glance Brussels seems to maintain let off the worst offshore offenders but gaze at the accompanying greylist and it appears the EU means businessDismissed in some quarters as a “missed opportunity for leadership and a “whitewash”,Tuesday’s publication of the European Union’s first tax haven blacklist has not cheered those who were hoping for a crackdown.
At first glance this is a victory for the offshore lobby, who maintain been fighting to keep the worst offenders, and many of them British dependencies,external of the hall of shame. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk