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Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (Unabridged)
 
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Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Nicholas Shaxson (Author), Tim Bentinck (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 12 hours and 51 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Audible Ltd
  • Audible Release Date: 28 Jun 2011
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005BEE6FA
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)

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Most people regard tax havens as being relevant only to celebrities, crooks and spivs, and mistakenly believe that the main offshore problems are money laundering and terrorist financing. These are only small parts of the whole picture. The offshore system has been (discreetly) responsible for the greatest-ever shift of wealth from poor to rich. It also undermines our democracies by offering the wealthiest members of society escape routes from tax, financial regulation, and other normal democratic controls.

Treasure Islands brilliantly articulates the problem in a completely new way, and exposes the deep corruption that impacts on our daily lives. This is the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery - and secretive offshore tax havens are at the heart of the trouble.

©2011 Nicholas Shaxson; (P)2011 Audible Ltd
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Nicholas Shaxon has written an excellent, well referenced , substantive book on how the money system works. Governments collude with financiers, and business interests, to make and take easy options for the benefit of the wealthy. The book is truly a revelation, and does much to explain how the sub prime crisis in the US morphed inexorably as institutions wrapped their packages in ever more complex instruments, built on an avalanche of cheap money. Shocking, un-putdownable, a brilliant piece of writing. Every Economics student should read this book. It should be mandatory for all Bankers and Financial Investment people to read and understand the immorality of their profession.
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40 of 48 people found the following review helpful
not fair 12 Jan 2011
By smudge
Format:Paperback
Shocking (the subject matter not the book itself!). Page after page of information about people cheating the system (forget small-fry benefit fraudsters here). Well written and informative and a book to make your teeth gnash.
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By bucky
Format:Paperback
A brilliant expose of tax havens and tax avoidance.Quite topical with all these tory types not paying their fair share but be warned this book is bad for your blood pressure if you are one of the unfortunates who do pay your fair share in taxes. Its frightening how little the rich contribute to the countries they make their money from.Murdoch's companies pay about 6% tax in Britain,which shows what a parasite he is.Every honest tax payer should read this book.
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Must read
This, along with Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt", is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how we got into such an economic mess and where real power resides. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Clive Menzies
worth the price
well worth reading this book even just to gauge the size of the frauds being perpetrated by the big companies, in tandem with the governments acquiescence
Published 1 month ago by andy w
An Important Book
This is a well written and deeply informative book. the trouble is it will also upset you as you read it with an increasing sense of anger that this is allowed and encouraged. Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. Miller
Timely
This is an important contribution to the developing discussion concerning the use of offshore tax havens. Read more
Published 2 months ago by John Baird
It will open your eyes to the corruption, greed and envy that rules...
Before I read this book I though I knew what offshores where, what they were used for and the impact they had in world finance... boy was I wrong! Read more
Published 3 months ago by pn
Facts are not checked, opinion is irritating
Firstly in the first chapter alone the author states that the UK is a tax Haven. The UK does not have an attractively low tax rate and does not have a high level of banking... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Bourne
Tax Arbitrage/evasion?
This had the potential to be a very good book, and clearly quite a bit of research has gone into it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Tunnel Rat
Treasure Islands - brilliant
The title should give you a good idea of whether this book is up your street. If it is, then expect a fascinating read and quite a few surprises along the way. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hinstock
Treasurse Islands
Excellent book full of pertinent information and shosuld be read by all adults in this country who are regular taxpayeres and the hard working living on the smell of an oilrag for... Read more
Published 4 months ago by jane
Enlightening at the same time depressing
The book is a must for those who would like to know why it is that the wealthy, super wealthy and global corporations can choose just how little tax they want to pay. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elle et belle
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