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Anonymous Access to Banks Easier Through Onshore Jurisdictions, Says Academic
printFor many, the question of whether it's easier to anonymously form a shell company in a Group of 20 country or a blacklisted tax haven will seem to have an obvious answer. Many would be wrong, however, according to research by Jason Sharman, a political scientist at Griffith University in Australia. Armed with Internet access, a few offshore investment magazines and $3,000, Sharman recently posed as a would-be tax dodger, sending out e-mails to corporate service providers in Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) jurisdictions and to offshore service providers in widely-known tax havens such as Liechtenstein, the British...
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