In the second half of the 2010s more than 100 countries--including all large offshore financial centers--started to automatically exchange bank information with foreign tax authorities. This informational big-bang marks a break with the situation of offshore bank secrecy that prevailed before....

Bank deposits in jurisdictions with banking secrecy constitute an effective tool to evade taxes on interest income. A recent EU reform reduces the scope for this type of tax evasion by introducing a source tax on interest income earned by EU residents in Switzerland and several other...

Offshore tax havens cause large losses of government revenue by facilitating tax evasion by wealthy individuals. This paper focuses on offshore tax evasion in developing countries and documents two empirical regularities. First, there is no clear development gradient in the exposure to offshore...

Der französische Ökonom (Jahrgang 1986, Lehrer an der London School of Economics) greift die "legalen" Methoden multinationaler Konzerne zur Steueroptimierung, -verkürzung und -vermeidung auf und stellt damit die Steueroasen für Europäer an den Pranger. Mit aktuellen Daten und Statistiken...