Tax havens and tax fraud

Here you have two short videos about how tax havens work and the cost of tax fraud in the EU:

And these are two short videos from AJ+ about how the big corporations avoid paying taxes:

Take action! (if you want)

As you might remember, we studied the thousand of millions of € that escape to the control of the governments every year. Different international organizations have started a campaign to end tax haven secrecy. You can send an e-mail to the G-20 leaders to ask them to take action and stop tax havens´ secrecy: 

http://www.endtaxhavensecrecy.org/en

More about fiscal fraud and tax evasion

Source: http://jimenapulse.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/germany-signs-tax-agreement-with-gibraltar/

Fiscal fraud is an important problem in Spain. The Spanish fiscal fraud is ten points higher (23 %) than the average of the European Union (13%). Tax inspectors calculate that fiscal fraud is around 40,000 million €. Can you imagine how many things could be done with this money?

You can find further information in Spanish in the following links: 

http://noticias.terra.es/economia/2009/1104/actualidad/el-fraude-fiscal-en-espana-supera-en-diez-puntos-a-la-media-europea.aspx

http://www.subinspectores.org/prensa/101103_01.htm

In this link you can find a definition of tax haven and bank secrecy: 

http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/242

Here you´ll find a short story of tax havens and a big number: the millions (trillions) of dollars experts calculated that were hidden in tax havens in 2007: 7,300,000,000,000 $:

http://knol.google.com/k/philippe-a-raymond/tax-haven/avzv37n57s8o/42#

And here it is an updated list of tax havens in the world and the classification the G-20 established last year: 

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/14/42497950.pdf