The fact that it defends tax haven activity, so often used to create and broaden inequality, as morally justified is yet more evidence of what it intends from its proposals.
Tax haven activity is strong worldwide.
While measures have been taken already to crack down on the separate issue of tax avoidance by individuals, campaigners have repeatedly said that without steps to tackle corporate activities in havens action will be futile.
Tamil Tigers used Chennai as a safe haven, and their activities, as the Indian historian Ramachandra Guha wrote, "were actively helped by the state government, with New Delhi turning an indulgent blind eye".
In Britain, where he sought refugee status, he has become a symbol for many in Britain of the exploitation of the country's immigration, welfare and justice systems by migrants seeking to use Britain as a haven for terrorist activities.
What we're finding is not that it's a haven for illegitimate activities but that there are many legitimate uses," he said.
There will be no point in tax arbitrage through tax havens because those activities will not have any material effect on its global profits.
According to Mr. Kruger, however, the area degenerated into a haven for drug activity, prostitution and, after its location was posted on the Internet, anonymous gay sex.
At the same time, the burdens on the penal system have grown as Honduras has become a haven of criminal activity in recent years.
"We've destroyed al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and we have ended the role of Afghanistan as a haven for terrorist activity," Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press".
For now, the Tor Project says it is focused on improving the software's image by attending conferences to educate law enforcement and dispel the notion that Tor is primarily a haven for criminal activity.
