Also @MKSolicitors is not impressed with @fichtner_jan @javiergb_com 's 'Sinks and Conduits' paper http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/2017/9/19/martin-kenney-academics-skew-picture-of-bvi-and-other-offsho.html … (lesson: researchers should talk to practitioners more)
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(4/4) His last critique is that the results are not new. Firstly, experts are only aware of a few jurisdictions, we study the global pattern. Secondly, the media response proved that OFC need more research. Please do write more papers showing the weight of different jurisdictions
I'm not a fan of all the name calling - 'anti-capitalists', 'evil tax dodgers' etc... and I do think there should be more research - but I wish there was more engagement between practitioners & researchers.
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I do think you do more than 'show some patterns'. The basic pattern is the lack of records from offshore jurisdictions in Orbis. From this u conclude 'Sink-OFCs attract and retain foreign capital' but that is a misinterpretation of the pattern of not-being-in-orbis.
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Yes, we talked about this before. We show the ownership chains "start" there, and thus BVI and other sink-OFCs are key players in the offshore world.
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I completely agree that we need more engagement. I'm not a fan either. I think saying "Public outcry over tax havens", "lack of transparency" and "loopholes" doesn't make us anti-capitalists, and definitely doesn't make our findings wrong (we study numbers).
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