Nicholas Shaxson



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Area of interest: Tax havens

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Email: [mailto:nick@treasureislands.org nick@treasureislands.org]

Personal website: http://treasureislands.org

Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/nicholas-shaxson

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Representation: http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/nicholas-shaxson

Networks: https://twitter.com/nickshaxson



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About: http://treasureislands.org/the-author

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 * also writes/has written for: Financial Times, Reuters, Vanity Fair, the Economist (and its sister publication the Economist Intelligence Unit), International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, the BBC, Africa Confidential and African Energy

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Other activities: journalist and investigator

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: “A number of people have asked why I live in Switzerland. The reason is that my partner, a journalist, was offered – and took – a job here. When that job came up I thought ‘what better place to be, if I am going to write a book about tax havens?’ – though to be honest London would have been even better"

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Other: Associate Fellow of Chatham House



Books & Debate:

 * Treasure islands: tax havens and the men who stole the world OCLC 659244459, 2011
 * Poisoned wells: the dirty politics of African oil OCLC 82672061, 2007

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Speaking/Appearances: http://treasureislands.org/events

Current debate: http://treasureislands.org/the-arguments 

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 * No regular column



Articles:

 * A scheme designed to net trillions from global tax havens is being scuppered - Switzerland and other offshore specialists are doing their best to frustrate international transparency in taxation - The Guardian, 22nd November 2012
 * Jersey is bluffing: independence would ruin its tax haven status - Jersey's assistant chief minister has threatened to break with the UK, but the island's clients need the stability of that relationship - The Guardian, 28th June 2012
 * Britain's sordid Swiss tax deal is doomed to failure - Bilateral agreements with Switzerland not only undermine EU efforts, they will raise just a fraction of what has been promised - The Guardian, 22nd September 2011
 * Time to black-list the tax haven whitewash - Two years ago the Group of 20 leading nations declared that “the era of banking secrecy is over”... Sadly, this was far from the dawn of a new era of financial transparency - Financial Times, 4th April 2011
 * 10 reasons we should tax corporations - Treasury plans to let big companies dictate tax rates are based on bogus arguments – corporation taxes are fair, and they work - The Guardian, 15th March 2011
 * Give the people their resource wealth - In 11 months, the price of a barrel of oil has gone from $145 to $30 and it is again pointing up. But whether prices are high or low, natural resources such as minerals or oil are a mixed blessing for ordinary people in countries that sell them - Financial Times, 4th June 2009



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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Shaxson