Tax Havens and International Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367877767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Paul Beckett

Opis

This book takes a human rights based approach to tax havens. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international human rights law.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Overview of Tax Havens and International Finance Centres

Chapter 2: Offshore Structures: Accountability Avoidance

Chapter 3: Beneficial Ownership Avoidance

Chapter 4: Tax avoidance and tax evasion

Chapter 5: The Isle of Man and the International Human Rights Continuum

Chapter 6: Switzerland: Illicit Financial Flows, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Chapter 7: Concluding Recommendations

O autorze

Paul Beckett currently practices as an Isle of Man Advocate and English Solicitor at MannBenham Advocates, Isle of Man. He has over thirty-five years’ experience as a lawyer, both within the international private banking and fiduciary services industries and in private practice. He is a member of the Solicitor Judges Division, Law Society of England and Wales; a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. His academic work extends over five decades. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1978 with First Class honours in Jurisprudence, being awarded his Master of Arts in 1982. He is also a member of New College, Oxford and was awarded his Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law in 2014.