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Previously on ""The era of banking secrecy is over" - Gordon"
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhen a company derives a lot of profits from unpublished tax avoidance this results in misrepresentation of profitable base, essentially investors are mislead as to what makes money and all their predictions are based on flawed assumptions about cash flows.
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Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post...
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIt was big problem actually - when Govt took over and actually read contracts it turned out NR was contractually obliged to do a lot of business with Granite or else big sanctions - so much for due diligence
NR was publicly traded company - the market in my view should have known about such odd arrangement and potential risks it may contain.
You can say it was not Granite that killed NR, but the unnatural structure of business designed to get profits from manipulation of money flows rather than having proper customers is that made their business fundamentally flowed - essentially ability of big companies to save on tax creates false impression on where their profits come from.
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Originally posted by bobhope View PostYou're talking about Granite - yes that's true. I think having it offshore was the least of NR's problems though.
NR was publicly traded company - the market in my view should have known about such odd arrangement and potential risks it may contain.
You can say it was not Granite that killed NR, but the unnatural structure of business designed to get profits from manipulation of money flows rather than having proper customers is that made their business fundamentally flowed - essentially ability of big companies to save on tax creates false impression on where their profits come from.
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Originally posted by bobhope View Post
Of course, banking secrecy caused this crisis?
Gov's just don't want to admit the major accountants and tax lawyers have been kicking their ass's and running rings around them for years now
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Its all a sham. Worked for a wealth management firm once. One of their "products" involved tucking the money in a bank acount of a company they created, paying themselves a huge divvy from the interest and giving the client a modest return.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIn a substantial part yes, for example who knew that Northern Rock used murky offshore company that Northern Rock made obligation to buy or sell huge sums of morgages to/from them, otherwise it will be huge ruinous penalties? Any such material agreement should be public - better even banks should not be allow to use any vehicles to keep things off balance, maximum is having a subsidiary in a foreign country (one such company per country), and certainly nothing in countries where they don't do their primary business, ie offshores.
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Originally posted by bobhope View PostOf course, banking secrecy caused this crisis?
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"The era of banking secrecy is over" - Gordon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...ng-crisis.html
Gordon Brown and his fellow world leaders have pledged the biggest crackdown on tax havens, hedge funds and banks in modern history as the price to be paid for the multi-trillion dollar bail-out of the world economy.
"The era of banking secrecy is over", the Prime Minister declared, as the Group of 20 leading nations agreed to impose a new range of regulations on banks and non-bank financial institutions as a punishment for contributing to the crisis.
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