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Preserving the ability of sovereign jurisdictions to determine their own tax policy – they oppose high-tax nations trying to export their tax laws to other nations, in effect trying to turn them into adjunct tax collectors, and the OECD trying to dictate tax policy in low-tax
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Protecting world commerce and open trade – it asserts that discriminatory financial protectionism against low-tax nations is a bad idea in principle and should be stopped.
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on "what CF&P is doing in Washington" and "the current legislative climate on offshore tax and information exchange schemes."
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In 2012, Mitchell’s colleague Andy Quinlan offered to brief Jennifer Mossack, working at
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has described the OECD as "a bunch of crazy European socialists".
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
globalisation
Financial Action Task Force
money laundering
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