How Tax Havens Plunder the Poor - Global （如何避税天堂掠夺穷人全球）.pdf

How Tax Havens Plunder the Poor Executive summary Tax havens have recently become big news, and where it appears on paper. Nearly four as well as big business. But amidst all the years after G20 leaders announced “an end to scandals of ministerial Swiss bank accounts and tax havens”:1 celebrity tax avoiders, there has been much less Every new entrant to the FTSE100 since 2011 discussion of the impact of tax havens on the has tax haven operations. Collectively the poorest countries in the world. FTSE100 now has more companies registered This briefing aims to fill that gap. It shows the in Jersey than in China; more in the Cayman primary role of the UK’s and the G8’s own tax Islands than in India. havens in a global merry-go-round that helps keep Ninety-eight of the 100 FTSE100 have 1.3 billion people in poverty and hunger, while companies in tax havens, 78 of which also have denying developing countries the ability to benefit operations in developing countries. In two cases from their own wealth, and raise the public funds that we analyse in greater detail, over 60% of needed to fight poverty. the firms’ tax haven companies are linked to 1) New analysis by ActionAid reveals that operations in developing countries. just under one in every two dollars of large While the number of overseas companies corporate investment in developing countries owned or controlled by FTSE100 firms has is now being routed from or via a tax haven. shrunk since 2011, the proportion of those A third of thes