History prof @ Yale; Harvard PhD; writing a history of #offshore & #taxhavens; also #feminism #LGBTQ #climate; ROAD CYCLIST; my views 🌈
Oct 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In a longer segment, I would have talked abt other issues arising from the #PandoraPapers 🧵. ICIJ's work is remarkable. As someone who spends time w descriptions of obfuscated legal vehicles for holding assets, I assure you their reconstruction of stories is a major feat. But:
The focus on personalities, while certainly necessary in some part to get people interested and talking, obscures other essential points. For one, we need to talk about the enablers-tax lawyers, bankers etc-about the striking similarity of strategies and tactics they adopted...
Aug 25, 2020 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
How do we make sense of the fact that our present-day system of #offshore#taxhavens expanded significantly during the 1950s&60s, the main decades of decolonization? In this piece, I explore part of the answer to this question: a thread academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…#twitterstorians
European settlers, businessmen, officials had been invested in #empire in various ways, across different colonies and imperial contexts. Such entanglements only increased in the final years of European rule #twitterstorians#offshore#taxation
Sep 24, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: Amazing resource for tracking corporate #taxhaven strategies&costs. What stands out: absence of data for Africa, ME, etc. We have to talk more abt costs of #taxavoidance for low-income countries, beginning w history of shifting profits from the late colonial world 1/n
The overall amount of profits shifted/cost incurred will be bigger for countries such as US and Europe. But the recent #mauritiusleaks showed that #African countries are hurt by multinational strategies of using tax havens to route investments and book profits 2/n
