But those accords did not cover tax evasion, and the issue has re-emerged.
The point is that from outside, belief looks like a series of ideas about the nature of the universe for which a truth-claim is being made, a set of propositions that you sign up to; and when actual believers don't talk about their belief in this way, it looks like slipperiness, like a maddening evasion of the issue.
Their evasion of the issue and lack of action are common manipulation tactics: They know that to win against this movement, they must first make us surrender, raise up that little white flag in our head.
Legal experts also said that while Britain might have done little to assert jurisdiction over the offshore enclave in the past, any prospect of its use for digital money laundering, gambling or tax evasion might quickly force the issue.
We will be using our presidency of the G20 to push the tax evasion issue further up the international agenda, in order to boost efforts in the EU and the OECD to tackle it.
Yet, this string of stumbles in confirming Obama's cabinet with tax evasion issues, the impeachment of the Illinois Governor and a zero republican vote of support for the bailout bill is absolutely having an impact on our Well Being, thank you very much.
There are also likely to be some new moves on tax evasion, with the government looking at both the issue of intent and whether those who "aid and abet" evasion - lawyers and accountants for example - can be held criminally accountable.
This has not always been the case in the past.The Singapore government realises that the "tax evasion issue has become politically sensitive", especially in Europe, and so it has acted, argues Edmund Leow, a senior tax lawyer at the Singapore firm of Baker & McKenzie, Wong & Leow.
However, unspoken in many discussions about the Chinatown economy is the issue of tax evasion.
Gledhill said that, while international tax reform is a small part of DfID's work, the issue of tax evasion, avoidance and corruption has moved up the political agenda since the financial crisis.
