In being grey listed South Africa joins a list of countries with poor governance. Others are war zones or countries with jihadist terror groupings operating on their land.
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New research shows that companies are shifting record amounts of their profits to tax havens, despite a global effort to crack down on the practice.
African countries, rich in resources, easily fall prey to aggressive tax planning and tax evasion facilitated by offshore companies.
Five years after David Cameron was pushing for tighter rules around disclosure of beneficial owners, nothing much has changed.
The latest instalment of leaks about the super-rich using offshore tax havens to hide their wealth has been published.
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Commercial Law, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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