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Tax justice versus tax havens

June 22, 2009

Al Jazeera

Two months ago G20 leaders pledged a crackdown on tax havens in response to the global financial crisis. But how much has changed?

The author Somerset Maugham once famously described Monaco as “a sunny place for shady people” and the tiny principality has never really lived it down.

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