Interesting piece of trivia. Mossack's father was in the Waffen SS.
These discussions and examples are exactly why this whole area of law is so fraught with difficulty. Setting up a well intentioned law usually allows ratbags to exploit it for nefarious means. There are good reasons for anonymous trusts, but those reasons ...
"If you want tax free status as a foreign trust then you need show that you have paid tax in the foreign country or pay it in New Zealand (at the same rate as New Zealander’s do in NZ.)" No. If you want tax free status you merely have to meet 2 criteria: -...
Thats not the same thing as suggesting it happened. And no i dont beloeve dot coms residency was entrapment. Entrapment implies that the residency caused his legal troubles. From memory dot com chose NZ - in gacr hr threatened to go to canada or austria if...
Such as?
Not all countries are countries that have sensible rule of law. What if your own country is Singapore and you are an opposition MP getting sued to bankruptcy by a compliant judiciary? Or you are a human rights organisation that wants to hide donor identity...
hmm - just noticed i mis-spelled my handle. Fingers need to go on a diet.
Focussing on potential tax implications of this issue is actually falling for a very significant misdirection. Yes, the obvious implication of the offshore trust industry is to enabel people to avoid paying tax. But pretty much every comment in NZ in the ...
Fonterra's problems have existed from way before the listing - note its not a full listing - the normal shareholder rights still reside with the farmer shareholders. The listed fonterra shares are kind of irrelevant to the actual management and capital ...
So if Russia indiscriminately bombs civilians that's ok, but if the USA does it (generally less discriminately), that is not? One set of morals for Russia, a different set for the USA?
Trump knows all about David Duke. From 2000: https://twitter.com/frankthorpNBC
head to head polls are here. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html Bear in mid that these are popular vote and dont show what the electoral college outcome would be. Any democrat including Clinton is unlikely to...
Here's the best insight I have seen on the three GOP frontrunners: http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/22/paths-to-the-nomination-trump-cruz-and-rubio/ It is easy to look at polls and assume these translate exactly in to primary outcomes but the primaries are...
"Most producers can’t make a profit at less than $100/barrel. Most consumers can’t afford to buy at more than $100/barrel." You may be confusing the budgetary breakevens in oil producing countries with marginal costs of productions. Two very different ...
Without reference to any federal law definitions of terrorism, at the moment I would describe them as protestors. When they start attempting to kill or injure people they become terrorists.
Does that mean a Waco or Ruby Ridge type response mean the authorities are not hypocritical?
Wow - when you read stupid things on the internet you're first assumption should be it it is a joke. "And a Wyoming Institute of Technology study, financed by those enlightened centres of progressive thought Saudi Arabia and BP Corporation, profess to ...
Well that's different. If you said it might happen in 150 years time who knows. In the near term (ie inside 15 years), extremely unlikely (or never for a non-statistician).
That's not a solution because a federated global authority will never happen. Ever. (Not saying it's a bad idea just that it has zero chance of ever occurring).
I didnt say I had the answers. I was just pointing out that in addition to all the points you make that I agree with there is this. Wahhabi inspired muslims have wanted to chop your head off, enslave your children, and impose a pre-medieval code of justice...
And yet Wahhabi-ism which infects mainstream Islam has been around for more than 200 years, well before the colonial and post colonial meddling of England/France/US etc. There have been radical Islamists who see anyone outside their sect as a cancer that ...
YES! He is a great man! A man of the people! One of the best! He will make a kleptcracy run by gangsters great again! And don't you love him when he shows us his manly chest. I'm not gay but it gives me a little tingle. https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-...
his actions on the ground would beg to differ. Politically and domestically sure he hates them, but also appears he is happy to use them as a tool on the ground in Syria to achieve his strategic aim.
are these the bad guys? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/04/killed-after-posing-for-pictures-the-five-year-old-victim-of-russias-airstrikes-on-syria Russia is bombing civilian areas with no rules of engagement. And if the bad guys are ISIS, then ...
Russia has only one objective in Syria, the preservation of Tartus as it's only western hemisphere naval base outside of the Crimea. Hey wait a minute, I'm seeing a connection here between russian adventures in the Ukraine and in Syria......... The ...
That story is only a look at a very minor symptom and kind of irrelevant in the greater scheme. The real issue is agricultural usage - more than 80% of water usage - growing high water usage crops in an arid region. Think the recent law about offering ...
Only a revisionist like CV could claim pre -current civil war Syria was a beacon of human rights in the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Syria
"1) NZ has STILL not ratified the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)." Luckily such exemplars as Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Venezuela. Ivory Coast, Myanmar, Nauru, Russia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Ukraine, Sudan, South Sudan, Albania, ...
Sabine: You're right about the current situation, but don't ever believe Syria was not one of the worst humans rights blackspots on the globe before the current "troubles". Not much has changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre That might ...
here's your evidence it was russia. no reporting at all on New Pravda. That's usually a giveaway despite RT being the most impartial, evidence based source of news on the planet.. https://www.rt.com/
citation, rumour, guesstimate or youtube video required: "(which also drops pamphlets warning them to move out when a ‘bombing raid’ is due in 45 minutes)"
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