The international community has shied away from instituting safe havens in conflict zones since the fall of Srebreniça in 1995. However, a look at the roles of safe havens in genocidal violence provides a deeper understanding of the need for these spaces to be established in a timely fashion. The strategic use of cultural safe havens as places for mass violence, necessitates the establishment of international safe havens for the protection of the targeted population, yet an analysis of the relationship between cultural safe havens and international safe havens has not been done before. As such, this research seeks to shed light on the relationship between the use of cultural safe havens, their inherent danger in cases of genocide, and the need for better models for international safe havens in times of violence. It is the researcher’s argument that to achieve this, the very perception of safety must be reimagined. Using content analysis methodology in the form of case studies, along with historical sociology, this research analyzes accounts of genocidal campaigns – Armenia, Rwanda and Bosnia – to explain the relationship between the dangers of cultural safe havens and the subsequent need for international safe havens that are established in time to save the victimized populations.

Tax havens have long been a subject of concern and were nutritiously used mostly by the rich elite and gangsters. In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008 more light was shed on tax havens and it has become an unanticipated central part of the global economy. This study investigates if globalization has a significant effect on the use of tax havens. The question is analyzed through the lens of fiscal policies and the political economy as well as some further interesting dichotomies and dilemmas. The debate of globalizations and its various effects in the world is still ongoing. While the world economy becomes more mobilized the lack of transparency in countries with higher secrecy becomes more apparent. We measure tax haven activity with foreign direct investment and look at both trade-and financial globalization as well as include a set of key control variables. Using a panel data analysis, we find that globalization has a significant positive effect on tax haven activity. However, in our results we also observe a continuing downward trend in FDI since 2015 which could be indicative of a potential upcoming paradigm shift. Findings in this paper facilitate the understanding of both benefits and concerns with tax havens, it shows how tax havens have been affected by globalization but also an estimation for the uncertain future of tax havens.

Manufacturing in the United States has been in a period of general decline over much of the past fifty years, though this overall pattern of de-industrialization has occurred at different times and intensities in specific geographical regions. However, local officials and development experts still focus efforts on attracting manufacturing industries into their communities, an effort often referred to as “smokestack chasing.” At the same time, environmentalism has been of increasing importance in the consciousness of American citizens. One of the central concerns of environmentalists and environmentally-oriented policy makers has been the pollution generated by these manufacturing facilities. As a result of these conflicting foci and interests, an intractable dividing line has emerged between those who view manufacturing as a source of local economic growth and employment opportunities, and those who are primarily interested in environmental quality and protection. This debate, characterized as one of “jobs versus the environment,” has been a central rhetorical frame utilized by the competing sides in both the policy and academic arenas. Numerous diverse strands of thought about these issues are synthesized into three primary theoretical perspectives, each of which purports to explain the economy-environment relationship. An assessment of the empirical relationship between economic standing, change, and environmental quality conducted using a variety of data sources and analytical techniques. Significant findings emerged which can be utilized to inform the environmental social sciences as well as policy makers and communities facing these issues.

It is the argument of this dissertation that states become tax havens as a conscious economic development strategy. These states – more properly referred to as "jurisdictions" because some lack the sovereignty of the traditional Westphalian state – do not have the natural resources or the population to pursue more traditional economic development strategies, but they do have the ability to write or implement laws that create a virtual resource: banking secrecy. These jurisdictions are able to carry out this strategy because they tend to be well-governed, stable, and relatively wealthy, making them attractive partners for the international banking, legal, and accounting firms that drive offshore finance, and then for their customers – both individual and corporate – as well. The qualities tax havens possess also enable them to calculate that the benefits they reap from pursuing this strategy outweigh any penalties assessed by anti-tax haven international collective action activities, such as the naming and shaming campaigns of 2000.

This piece is a forty-five minute video utilizing the concept of liquid medium cross-pollination of media including, sound, music, video and "found" art. The piece was shot over the course of three years at a cost of twelve thousand dollars using a Sony trv950, a Mac PowerBook, a 1954 Gibson J45, and a 1971 Guild F212, edited on Final Cut Pro and conceptualized for multiple viewings.

Since the mid-1990s, countries offering tax systems that facilitate international tax avoidance and evasion have been facing growing political pressure to comply with the internationally agreed standards of exchange of tax information. Using data of German investments in tax havens, we find evidence that the conclusion of a bilateral tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) is associated with fewer operations in tax havens and the number of German affiliates has on average decreased by 46% compared to a control group. This suggests that firms invest in tax havens not only for their low tax rates but also for the secrecy they offer. (authors' abstract) / Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series

This thesis is focused on the assessment of the legal, tax and accounting aspects of the tax optimization and using of tax havens. There were chosen the following tax havens: the Netherlands, Cyprus, Malta, Belize, the Seychelles. The choice of these states was based on statistics made by the company Bisnode (2015). In these states there were compared legal conditions and costs connected with establishing of company, tax aspects which were focused on the corporate income tax (with and without existence of the permanent establishment) and accounting aspects. Because of the better illustration of these aspects there was made a case study. This study was focused on the fictive small Czech entrepreneur who wanted to reduce the costs through using of tax havens. Tax havens and also the Czech Republic were compared in each chosen aspect. At the end there was determined a final order of selected states (each aspect had the same value on the final order). For the comparison there was used a scoring method (exactly in comparison of legal and accounting aspects). Tax aspects were evaluated according to the amount of tax duty. The final order was based on arithmetic mean of partial orders. It was found out that the best country for our small entrepreneur is the Czech Republic (with and also without establishing of permanent establishment). However, this result is affected by the chosen aspects and also by the size and main aim (reduce costs) of the entrepreneur. So we can´t say that these tax havens are disadvantageous for everyone all the time.

La transposition de la 3ème directive européenne de 2005 sur la lutte contre le blanchiment d'argent dans notre droit français est effective depuis l'ordonnance de 2009 relative à la prévention de l'utilisation du système financier aux fins de blanchiment de capitaux et de financement du terrorisme. Il s'agit d'un texte fondamental pour tout professionnel assujetti au dispositif de la lutte anti-blanchiment. L'introduction de la.notion de proportionnalité dans les obligations de vigilance confère une réelle souplesse au régime de contrôle des transactions. Ce passage d'un contrôle rigide à un contrôle reposant sur le risque présenté par l'opération peut toutefois susciter quelques inquiétudes. Cette «approche risque» n'est-elle pas dangereuse de par les dérives auxquelles elle peut conduire ? Le nouveau dispositif imposant des obligations modulables en fonction du risque de blanchiment s'avère-t-il plus satisfaisant au plan théorique ? Plus efficace en pratique ? Est-il compatible avec les autres obligations auxquelles sont tenues les professionnels, acteurs de la lutte contre le blanchiment ? De plus, dans quelle mesure la transposition de la directive européenne retenue par le droit pénal français était la seule transposition possible ou, à tout le moins, la plus pertinente ? La véritable solution n'est-elle pas l'adoption d'une incrimination internationale de blanchiment ? En d'autres termes, il ne s'agirait pas seulement d'harmoniser les législations européennes et même internationales mais d'unifier ces législations et de créer une infraction de droit international pénal, infraction assortie de règles procédurales spécifiques / The transposition of the 3rd European directive published in 2005 dealing with anti-money laundering in French law bas taken effect since the 2009 order on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing. It is a fundamental text for any professional subject to the anti-money laundering plan of action. The introduction of the notion of proportionality in the duty of care conf ers a real flexibility on the transactions control regime. This transition from an inflexible control to a new control based on the risk presented by the operation may however raise concems. Is this "risk approach" not hazardous according to excesses it might lead to? Do the new measures imposing adjustable obligations depending on the risk of laundering prove to be more satisfactory theoretically speaking? Are they more effective in practice? Are they compatible with the other obligations the professionals - actors of the fight against money laundering - are required to comply with? Moreover, to what extent was the transposition of the European directive retained by the French criminal law the only possible transposition or, at least, the most relevant. Is the real solution not to be found in the adoption of an international money laundering incrimination? ln other words, it is not just a question of standardizing European and even international legislations but also of unifying these legislations and creating a new criminal offence in the intemational criminal law, an offence accompanied by specific procedural regulations.

The main objective of this Master's thesis is to analyze the regulation of tax liability of legal person and on the basis of the analysis to reveal opportunities for optimization of the tax liability by means of practical examples of the application of tax optimization. To achieve this objective, the work is divided into five main chapters. The purpose of the first four chapters is to provide a sufficient theoretical base connected with tax optimization. This section begins with the interpretation of general problems of the theory of corporate taxes, which gradually passes into the interpretation of more specific areas. In the following part of the work the selected methods of tax optimization are used on illustrative numerical examples, the conditions for the application of optimization methods are determined and the situation before using the optimization and after the use is compared. The conclusion summarizes the possible ways of reducing the tax burden of the firm and the possibility of their practical use.

The aim of this thesis is to provide a description of the phenomenon of tax havens in relation to the Czech Republic. The thesis begins with description of theoretical background of this topic including the description of main sectors used for international tax optimalization. Among the areas of the optimization methods, which are described in this thesis, belongs dividends, royalty payments, interest income. The thesis presents an impact of tax haven existence to Czech economy. The impact on public budget is shown and counted on the model example of fictive international company. As a reaction of losses caused by profit shifting to more favourable jurisdictions international organizations are coming up with initiatives to reduce the possibilities of tax planning. The thesis is concluded with an overview which Czech republic should accept to reduce profit shifting to other jurisdictions.