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Caroline Doggart, Tax Haven Woman

October 13, 2010

By Nicholas Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson, the editor of TJN's Tax Justice Focus and writer for the Tax Justice Network, is an associate fellow at Chatham House in London and the author of a book about tax havens, entitled Treasure Islands, launched in 2011.

The Tax Justice Network is delighted to announce the creation of a new section on the TJN website, Special Features. This will be a very occasional series of feature articles, involving high quality research and journalism, which will complement our more academic Briefing Papers section, and other technical output that we have been publishing over recent years.

For our inaugural special feature we are extremely grateful to William Brittain-Catlin, a corporate investigator and author of “Offshore: the dark side of the global economy.” This is an interview with Caroline Doggart (pictured), an author for the Economist Intelligence Unit whose reports into tax havens since the 1970s became a sensation in the offshore world. Brittain-Catlin’s article represents an important piece of personal, political and economic history, and it neatly complements our recent research paper on the emergence of wide-scale British tax havenry from the late 1960s.

Click here to read Caroline Doggart, Tax Haven Woman.

With special thanks, too, to Shara Henderson for permission to use her photos.

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