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REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 30-55Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2015.1130736
Keywords
Global Wealth Chains; corruption; tax evasion; micro-states; illicit financial flows; Australia
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- Norwegian Research Council: 'STEAL: Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering' grant [212210/H30]
- Australian Research Council [DP120100937, FT120100485]
- Australian Research Council [FT120100485] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Since the financial crisis, various supra-national initiatives have targeted banking and corporate secrecy, the conventional underpinnings of the illicit Global Wealth Chains through which money from tax evasion, corruption and other financial offences are passed across borders. This paper analyses the varying impact of these initiatives on the diverse types of Wealth Chains running through two stereotypical havens, Liechtenstein and the Seychelles, and one G20/OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) member rarely associated with illicit financial flows, Australia. Recent campaigns have had a significant impact on illicit Global Wealth Chains connected to micro-state tax havens, while leaving those to Australia unaffected. Even with reference to the micro-state havens, however, outside regulatory shifts have in some cases changed the flow or form of Wealth Chains by unintentionally creating new opportunities for offshore finance. Evidence is drawn from interviews and fieldwork in all three countries, secretly recorded footage of intermediaries explaining the workings of illicit Wealth Chains, and corporate and property records collected by a private investigator engaged by the author.
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