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On February 17, 2007, Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Norm Coleman (R-MN) introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act.

On March 2, 2009 Senators Carl Levin, Whitehouse, McCaskill and Bill Nelson introduced the new Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act.

Two years ago the bill was proposed by the three senators, but had not passed until the end the session of the Congress, so it was cleared from the books. Now the situation is absolutely different. One of the introducers, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), is now president of the United States. He has said that the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act is a basic issue of fairness and integrity, and that there is a need to crack down on individuals and businesses that abuse tax laws.

The other introducer, Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is a person involved in anti-money laundering, abusive tax shelters and tax evasion many years now. He has led the examination of the collapse of Enron and has exposed deceptive tax and accounting practices. If there is a person in the United States that has in depth knowledge of the offshore tax practices, he is Senator Levin. He has said that "Secrecy breeds tax evasion. Tax evasion eats at the fabric of society". He is determined to go on with this Act.

The Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act targets tax evasion and the $100 billion tax that is lost each year in the United States. As Congress has passed an $800 billion recovery bill to deal with the market crisis, on top of the $700 billion to help the financial institutions, there is a need for money, and the accelerated effort to fight tax evasion is of paramount importance. One of the consequences for professionals: Tax compliance becomes a much more important discipline, and tax compliance professionals will be needed to understand and enforce the Act.

The purpose of the bill is clear: To restrict the use of offshore tax havens and abusive tax shelters to inappropriately avoid Federal taxation.

The Act is not covering tax abuse in general, but includes a list of jurisdictions that have been identified by the Internal Revenue Service as secrecy jurisdictions. These are:

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda , Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guernsey / Sark / Alderney, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Samoa, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos, Vanuatu.

The bill establishes some interesting evidentiary presumptions that will be used:

1. U.S. taxpayers that have formed, transferred assets to, were beneficiaries of, or received money or property from an offshore entity, using legal entities like a trust or corporation, are in control of these entities

2. The funds received from offshore entities are taxable income, and the funds transferred offshore have not yet been taxed

3. Financial accounts controlled by U.S. taxpayers in any country allow the IRS to assert the minimum penalty for nondisclosure of the account by the taxpayer.

4. Directors, officers, or major shareholders of U.S. publicly traded entities that are associated with an offshore entity, control the offshore entity.

The above assumptions apply to offshore jurisdictions that have secrecy laws and secrecy practices that unreasonably restrict the ability of the U.S. authorities to obtain information, and do not have good information exchange programs with the United States.

After the European Union and the extraterritorial application of European law introduced in EU directives (like the 8th Company Law and Solvency ii), the Offshore Financial Centers will be hit by this interesting extraterritorial application of American law introduced in the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act.

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Vailima, Samoa $68.51 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Vailima is the name of a village about four kilometers south of Apia, the capital of Samoa. The population is 1,462 (2006 census). Vailima is part of the electoral political district Tuamasaga. The village is most known as the location of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson, named Villa Vailima. The estate has had a varied past with it functioning further as the residence for the governor of German Samoa, the administrator of the New Zealand mandatory authority and the Samoan head of state. It is now a museum in honour of Stevenson and has been substantially restored. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2010/07/09 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.18 inches

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