The Swiss tax scheme sort of worked for the Swiss because there used to be few trustworthy tax havens. When everyone does it, it ceases to be unique and each additional party has to sweeten the deal (cheapen the service), making it a race to the bottom. It’s not a deterrent to aggression and it was never a deterrent. Tax havens are sort of coming to an end, and that’s a good thing. They’re not helping workers, they’re not even helping industrialists, they’re just helping people and companies with robber-baron hoards of wealth to keep running up the score against the rest of us poor schmucks. They also don’t do much economic good for the host country either. Just consider Ireland, they’ve attracted lots of companies, but all the Irish get out of it is shitty call center jobs and a factory job for the lucky few.
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