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22 Austl. Tax F. 3 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/austraxrum22 and id is 1 raw text is: Review essay
Harmful tax competition:
Defeat or victory?
Havens in a Storm:
The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation
J. C. Sharman
(2006: Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London)
Sunita Jogarajan and Miranda Stewart*
Abstract
In the late I 990s, the OECD launched its report on Harmful Tax Competition
-An Emerging Global Issue.The goal of the OECD was to eliminate or regulate
harmful preferential tax regimes for mobile financial capital, including tax havens. By
2001, the OECD consensus, already shaky as a result of abstention by Switzerland
and Luxembourg, was breached by the United States and the OECD backed
away from strong sanctions against tax havens.The focus of the OECD project
subsequently shifted towards less onerous exchange of information obligations. This
review essay discusses recent research into the OECD's attempt at regulating harmful
tax competition.
* Sunita Jogarajan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the UTniversity of Melbourne.
She is also affliated with KPMG Australia, working in tax pohc.
Miranda Stewart is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Melbourne and Co-Director of the Melbourne Taxation Studies program. She is an
International Research Fellow of the Centre for Business Taxation at the Said Business
School, Oxford U_ niversit.
This paper was accepted for publication 27 February 2007.
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