Tax Havens and International Human Rights (Paperback)

This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. 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. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations, nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It also lays bare the cynical manipulation by tax havens of traditional legal forms and conventions, and the creation of entities so bizarre and chimeric that they defy classification. Yet from the perspective of the tax havens themselves, these are entirely legitimate; the product of duly enacted domestic laws. This book is not a work of investigative journalism in the style of the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Panama Papers, exposing political or financial corruption, money laundering or the financing of terrorism. All those elements are present of course, but the focus is on international human rights and how tax havens do not merely facilitate but actively connive at their breach. The tax havens are compromising the international human rights legal continuum.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Human Rights and International Law
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Paul Beckett
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-87776-7
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law Promotions
LSN:	0-367-87776-7
Barcode:	9780367877767

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