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Spain to question Gibraltar’s exclusion from EU tax havens blacklist
Spain will call on the European Commission to include Gibraltar on the EU blacklist of tax havens published last week, it emerged over the weekend. The list names the 30 top tax havens as identified by EU countries, but Gibraltar is not on it. Only nine of the EU’s 28 members - among them Spain - view the Rock as a harmful jurisdiction for taxation. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDear Spain,
Jun 24th, 2015 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here's a little tip which might help clear up the mystery of why the EU countries have chosen not to support Spanish propaganda. Have a look at the OECD's “Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes”. This gives Gibraltar the same rating as e.g Germany, the US, the UK and Italy, and puts Andorra one rung below. That could be why.
http://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/GFratings.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/GFratings.pdf
Spain, whine and complain all you want. You are like Argentina and the boy who cried wolf.... no one cares anymore.
Jun 24th, 2015 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0As for this blatant lie:
“Last week the EU blacklisted 30 territories as the world's worst tax havens of which fourteen Caribbean countries, mostly British Overseas Territories”
6 BOTs are on the list. Of the 14 Caribbean countries, that is not MOSTLY! It is less than half.
Indeed the biggest group on the list were CELAC members. So a better statement would have been:
“Last week the EU blacklisted 30 territories as the world's worst tax havens of which fourteen Caribbean countries, mostly CELAC members”
Dr Goebbels would be proud of them.
Jun 24th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Merco Press
Jun 24th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please will you correct your errors
Previously your headlined with...
Fourteen Caribbean BOTs blacklisted by EU as world's worst tax havens.
Now you are saying...
Last week the EU blacklisted 30 territories as the world's worst tax havens of which fourteen Caribbean countries, mostly British Overseas Territories.
Both of these are substantially incorrect.
Only SIX of the locations are BOT's , while More than that are CELAC members.
So can you correct the mistakes on this and the other posting.
One reason that spain likes to do this is to put a smokescreen over its many breaches of EU law. For instance;
Jun 24th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.clientearth.org/aarhus-centre-news/eelo/spain-evades-laws-to-protect-urban-waste-water-1671
http://www.clientearth.org/aarhus-centre-news/eelo/spain-evades-laws-to-protect-urban-waste-water-1671
http://www.clientearth.org/aarhus-centre-news/eelo/spain-evades-laws-to-protect-urban-waste-water-1671
http://www.clientearth.org/aarhus-centre-news/eelo/spain-evades-laws-to-protect-urban-waste-water-1671
http://www.clientearth.org/aarhus-centre-news/eelo/spain-evades-laws-to-protect-urban-waste-water-1671
See how many relate to spanish financial crimes.
Spain is broke, and jealous of others.
Jun 24th, 2015 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0So the petulant twats moan and distract whilst the tumbleweed blows through their dusty economic streets. ..
Rajoy and the rest of the crooks that make up the Spanish “government” are just the same as the Argentine “government”, they just want to obfuscate their abysmal performance and pick their nearest, smallest, apparently 'weak' neighbour to pick on.
Jun 24th, 2015 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wankers, the lot of them.
@7 ChrisR
Jun 24th, 2015 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hear hear!
“more than sufficient reason” to the Spanish would seem to be less than sufficient reason to most of the rest of Europe.
Jun 24th, 2015 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt the “Commission” will “clarify” that Gibraltar is indeed, not on the list.
Doesn’t bode well for their position in the “open skies” talks, never mind a change of sovereignty.
lets see...
Jun 25th, 2015 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Only nine of the EU’s 28 members - among them Spain - view the Rock as a harmful jurisdiction for taxation.”
ONLY 9????
ONLY????
that is 30% of them you dumbassholes.
and if you ask the rest of the world, that percentage will increase to 99%
“Last week the EU blacklisted 30 territories as the world's worst tax havens, mostly British Overseas Territories”
of course.
all of them british colonies like the islets and gibraltar.
they all are the same bullshite.
the funny thing is that they are not only tax havens, but also money laundries, smugglers paradises and centres of corruption.
anyway, it wont last too much more.
“Bruselas estrecha el cerco al ‘paraíso’ fiscal de Gibraltar”
http://cincodias.com/cincodias/2014/10/01/mercados/1412159931_230107.html
Hey pauli-bum,
Jun 26th, 2015 - 08:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0You should see the gold bars that the Chinese Triads have stashed under our house!
Just dripping with corruption.
Everyone has their price, No?
l'm guessing that yours would be very low, yes?
Poor Paul!
Jun 27th, 2015 - 04:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0There were more CELAC members than BOTs on that list! Do try to keep up.... you should be able to as you don't have a job to go to.
@7 ChrisR
Jun 28th, 2015 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“they just want to obfuscate their abysmal performance and pick their nearest, smallest, apparently 'weak' neighbour to pick on”
Spot on. That's Spanish bravado -never picking on anything that bites back.
@ 13 Pete Bog
Jun 29th, 2015 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My wife has been watching a TV programme which explains why the Spanish Amada was defeated and asked me if I knew to which I said that she should watch each episode and after the final one we could discuss what she thought.
“Some of them cut the anchors free when the English fire ships came near them - how did they expect to control the ship in a gale. The Duke of Palma's army never turned up because they expected the English Channel to be no more than a large river and they could see the Armada: they couldn't” and so it went on until I asked the question “is there any country nearby who you think acts the same? Quick as a flash she said ”Argentina, it's a Spanish thing, isn't it?”
You can see why I married her!
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