Thursday, January 19, 2012

Capitalist criminals rob poor countries blind.

This is a staggering fact below. And this is only tax evasion. This does not take into account the "legal" looting of the resources and wealth of the former colonial countries. Sean.


From Al Jazeera's Peter Greste in nairobi.

Money taken illegally from the developing world is worth 10 times annual global aid budgets, according to a recent study by a Swedish agency, Forum Syd.

Tax evasions by multinational companies in Africa is so vast that one tax analyst believes that if the money were paid, most of the continent would be "developed" by now.

But, lacking a sophisticated tax code, or the people qualified to enforce tax laws, many African countries continue to lose money that could solve most of its financial problems.


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