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At the end of yesterday’s debate, Commissioner Bolkestein neglected the two key problems: legal tax havens and the impact of fraud on employees and small savers. It is good that he is introducing strict disclosure requirements in September, which will result in special operations and transactions being listed in the accounts and the use of special instruments being explained; that should have been done much sooner. It is imperative that we have an accounting system that does not conceal the actual state of affairs and the reasons for it. What I now find the most worrying is that European countries are offering companies the opportunity of bypassing rules laid down by other countries. I had always thought that the problems of banking secrecy, letter-box companies and tax havens were confined to Luxembourg, Austria and the Swiss cantons Zug and Schwyz, but it now emerges that thousands of billions of Parmalat’s property was kept in the Netherlands with the help of 181 trust offices, five private companies and one foundation. The favourable investment climate for foreign companies created by the Dutch government in the 1990s gives swindlers and tax evaders elbow-room. I have not heard anything from the Dutch Commissioner about what action he is taking against this policy, which his party helped to promote. I shall shortly be putting this on the agenda, therefore, in questions to the European Commission."@en1
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