Sentence examples for havens from inspiring English sources

Christensen himself realised in the 1970s that "holy cow, these tax havens are very important and no one's studying them".

To him, it seemed that tax avoidance and tax havens were a real impediment to allowing developing countries to function properly, and also a moral issue for companies in the developed world; for the Jersey-born Christensen, paying a fair amount of tax was the duty of any good citizen.

We know that it is not true that tax havens and other loopholes make it impossible to monitor international financial transactions, because when the world's authorities wanted to check the flow of finances funding terrorism they were able to move effectively.

Development experts said the CDC's use of tax havens undermined the UK's efforts to help poor countries.

• Close offshore tax havens to stabilise the financial sector, discourage tax avoidance and help provide funds for sustainable investment.

The capital's air conditioned metro and shopping malls have become much-sought-after havens from the heat, while power cuts in residential areas were frequent as the grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air conditioners.

Cameron used the quarterly meeting of his business advisory group to urge big firms to back his push for international action to crack down on the use of tax havens.

He said tax havens were symptoms of the growing pains of globalisation.

"Western leaders look at Africa and blame their leaders for corruption but they don't recognise that the systems we've put in place – above all the tax havens jurisdiction economy – are an open invitation to criminal behaviour, fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement, and non-disclosure".

To this end, we demand: Control and regulation of financial speculation by abolishing tax havens, and establishing a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).

"They should not give them havens, they should not allow them to use the financial systems to move monies around".