http://thekomisarscoop.com Reports & Analysis by Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:39:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/01/how-multinational-aided-by-ernst-young-tried-to-launder-profits-cheat-on-taxes-through-offshore-bermuda-shell-5/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/01/how-multinational-aided-by-ernst-young-tried-to-launder-profits-cheat-on-taxes-through-offshore-bermuda-shell-5/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:53:05 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=3507 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/01/how-multinational-aided-by-ernst-young-tried-to-launder-profits-cheat-on-taxes-through-offshore-bermuda-shell-5/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/07/qa-tax-havens-bank-secrecy-and-tricks/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/07/qa-tax-havens-bank-secrecy-and-tricks/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:51 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=1744 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/07/qa-tax-havens-bank-secrecy-and-tricks/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/05/oecd-tax-havens-deal-falls-short-critics-say/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/05/oecd-tax-havens-deal-falls-short-critics-say/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 20:10:31 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/05/08/oecd-tax-havens-deal-falls-short-critics-say/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/05/oecd-tax-havens-deal-falls-short-critics-say/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/irs-on-the-track-of-tax-cheating-john-does/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/irs-on-the-track-of-tax-cheating-john-does/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 03:08:41 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/30/irs-on-the-track-of-tax-cheating-john-does/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/irs-on-the-track-of-tax-cheating-john-does/feed/ 1 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/tax-havens-in-spotlight-at-g20-meet/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/tax-havens-in-spotlight-at-g20-meet/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:32:29 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/29/tax-havens-in-spotlight-at-g20-meet/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/03/tax-havens-in-spotlight-at-g20-meet/feed/ 2 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/offshore-tax-cheating-could-become-criminal-money-laundering-offense/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/offshore-tax-cheating-could-become-criminal-money-laundering-offense/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:33:43 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/11/offshore-tax-cheating-could-become-criminal-money-laundering-offense/ The law aims at cases in which money passes through tax havens. It targets not just the evaded taxes, but any money that is part of the scam.]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/offshore-tax-cheating-could-become-criminal-money-laundering-offense/feed/ 2 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/is-ny-gov-paterson-protecting-corporate-tax-evaders/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/is-ny-gov-paterson-protecting-corporate-tax-evaders/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:48:12 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/?p=1627 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/is-ny-gov-paterson-protecting-corporate-tax-evaders/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/exclusive-how-one-funds-profits-ended-up-in-the-caymans/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/exclusive-how-one-funds-profits-ended-up-in-the-caymans/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:59:42 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/05/exclusive-how-one-funds-profits-ended-up-in-the-caymans/ Why would a New York investment fund manager run operations through an office in the Caymans? "This type of structure is for optimising taxes," explained Max Obrist, a Cayman Islands official of the global Julius Baer Group (Zurich). He told IPS that "generating" the income where a company was actually based, "you would pay much more taxes". Obrist was describing a company shifting claimed earnings to tax havens to evade home taxes. He allegedly helped Julius Baer Investment Management (JBIM) New York do just that. ]]> http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/02/exclusive-how-one-funds-profits-ended-up-in-the-caymans/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/01/swiss-bank%e2%80%99s-crafty-strategy-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-clamp-down-on-tax-havens/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/01/swiss-bank%e2%80%99s-crafty-strategy-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-clamp-down-on-tax-havens/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:20:02 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/01/05/swiss-bank%e2%80%99s-crafty-strategy-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-clamp-down-on-tax-havens/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/01/swiss-bank%e2%80%99s-crafty-strategy-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-clamp-down-on-tax-havens/feed/ 0 http://thekomisarscoop.com/2008/07/corruption-laundromat-royale/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2008/07/corruption-laundromat-royale/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:59:23 +0000 Lucy Komisar http://thekomisarscoop.com/2008/07/18/corruption-laundromat-royale/ http://thekomisarscoop.com/2008/07/corruption-laundromat-royale/feed/ 3