Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0653-1788

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Political science

Publication Details

Woodward, R. (2006) ‘Offshore Strategies in Global Political Economy: Small Islands and the Case of the EU and OECD Harmful Tax Competition Initiatives’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 19, 4, pp. 685-99.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557570601003569

https://doi.org/10.1080/09557570601003569

Abstract

This article investigates how recent attempts by the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to clamp down on harmful tax competition will affect small island economies with offshore financial centres (OFCs). It argues that although there are legitimate concerns about the initiatives, the likelihood that small island OFCs will disappear is remote. A confluence of factors have forced the EU and OECD to dilute their original proposals to the extent that while some marginal OFCs may be driven out of existence, more sophisticated OFCs will be unharmed and may even benefit from this supposed regulatory offensive.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/09557570601003569


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