Frank26: (Reposted from Mon. Night CC) ..so will Iraq comply with the IMF to do a few things by the end of the first half of 2016…well I see them running to this position far more than I see them delaying …it is impressive fighting corruption and prosecuting became an eruption and it has succeeded.
But laws are ready to dominate because many reforms have already commenced…weeks and months ago in Iraq without them telling you…reforms are marching…
I can tell you very clearly that Abadi got what he wanted…he got all his reforms…IMO…you see the evidence of it…banking systems…MasterCard…bonds actually being sold…and so on…this is HUGE.
I love that many oil companies are in Iraq digging, exploring, and drilling in Iraq even more than before. Something has enticed them to reach deeper into their pockets for Iraq and for themselves as international companies.
Iraq has disrespected the international world for the last 10 years with all of the gifts and the alms that have been paid at their feet, it is time to pay up Iraq. You are primed to enter Article 8 of the IMF in the first half of 2016…you are now officially weaned.
The RI…the Reinstatement of the currency…the preparation…all of that is what is going to allow them to enter into Article 8…oh my word…they got all these things done.
Let’s start the reconstruction… raise the value of your money…because the loans are not for that part…that is not the deal…the new math is for that part.
Last night…Dr. Shabibi turned in his resume to the international world…Dr. Shabibi has been the governor of the CBI all along…he was dismissed by Maliki in 2012 but he remained the governor of the CBI all along…and he worked on the Monetary Reform of his currency…of his country that he loves and cares for all this time…
So may I suggest to you that Dr. Shabibi handed in his resume…these are my qualifications for being the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq because maybe Allak is now ready to hand in his resignation and say good bye…just as we told you…we said …that he would be there…that he will take the helm…what are you thinking of doing Dr. Shabibi…well maybe I come back and stand on that soapbox and make an announcement…tell the people…I love ya…and I tell them to get their RI set because the RV is next..
Mike100: anybody find it odd of the timing of the panama papers? coincidentally when ordinary people are about to come into a windfall of money from the RV this comes out about the tax dodging and how the rich have been getting away with this for many years. Unreal.
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Walkingstick: HSBC, Coutts & Rothschild: British banks help the 1% evade tax,
#PanamaPapers suggest
Published time: 5 Apr, 2016 12:36
Big British banks have allegedly been helping the rich and powerful ferret away their wealth beyond the taxman’s reach for decades, according to explosive revelations in the Panama Papers.
Some of the world’s biggest banks were implicated in the largest data leak in history on Monday, including Britain’s HSBC, Coutts, and Rothschild, and Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse.
MPs and activists have attacked bankers for facilitating the use of near-invisible offshore firms used by criminals, terrorists, celebrities and politicians to hide their money.
Tax experts have called for new legislation to crack down on tax evasion in light of the revelations.
According to the leak, HSBC and affiliate companies have asked the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm to create more than 2,300 shell companies since the 1970s.
London-based private bank Coutts – which counts Queen Elizabeth II among its clientele – requested the law firm to set up nearly 500 shell companies through its Jersey branch, while Rothschild requested 378 through its Guernsey arm.
The shell companies were set up in Panama, the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens.
The leaked files allegedly show how banks and law firms failed in many cases to follow legal requirements to check their customers are not tax dodging, or involved in corruption or criminal enterprises.
“People are naturally very worried that there are individuals and organizations not paying tax when they should be. If this type of thing facilitates tax evasion then this is something we absolutely must clamp down on,” Tory MP Mark Garnier told the Financial Times.
Labour MP John Mann, a member of the Treasury committee, called for evidence to be handed to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
“There should be transparency, it is vital after the financial crisis. There needs to be some responsibility taken by senior bankmanagers — the top executives — if criminality is proven to have happened and they’ve turned a blind eye to it.”
Public outrage at the revelations is building momentum as social media users took to Twitter to condemn the banks for their role in alleged tax evasion.
Tax expert Richard Murphy called for new legislation to crack down on British Overseas Territories used as tax havens.
Murphy, who has advised Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s taxation policy, said the government is not telling the truth when it says it cannot change the law in UK Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.
He proposes instigating four simple reforms:
All accounts of all companies on public record
All beneficial ownership on public record, proven by a requirement that banks confirm the beneficial ownership of companies they provide services to
Directorships on public record
Forcing trusts to be on public record.
If the territories refuse to cooperate with Westminster, Murphy says the government should implement direct rule.
He cites a 2009 example when the British parliament discovered corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands and suspended its government for two years, with power transferred to a Westminster-appointed governor.
https://www.rt.com/uk/338497-banks-tax-evasion-panama/
