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Tax And Terrorism: A New Partnership?, Michelle Gallant
Tax And Terrorism: A New Partnership?, Michelle Gallant
Michelle Gallant
The global chase for terrorist assets has shed light on a link between tax and terrorism. Tax havens have been associated with terrorist finance, identified as potential centres for filtrating terrorist assets and for enabling the cross-border movement of the resources destined for terrorist enterprises. Complex multi-jurisdictional financial transactions have become the venues for the merger of terrorist finance with other mobile capital, its criminally ordained purpose hidden midst the convolutions of international tax and related transactions.
To many the mechanics of tax is an inaccessible subject. It consists of a complex matrix of laws best left to the professional …