28 September 2009
“Lesen Sie es von meinen Lippen ab, keine neuen Steuern.” (translation: Read my lips, no new taxes.) Okay, maybe German Chancellor Angela Merkel didn’t actually say that – but that was the gist of her message when she made a play for a second term. And it worked. With Germany suffering through its own economic [...]
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11 May 2009
Germany, like the US, has been highly critical of countries considered to be tax havens. Mostly, those are countries outside of Europe with financial and banking secrecy laws meant to woo (mostly) westerners with the lure of escaping taxation. There are a few notable exceptions within Europe: Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. All three are small, [...]
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