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Tax Avoidance and Evasion

As yet, there is no de jure state of southern Sudan. The government in Rumbek are pretty sui generis. We will have to see whether they hold a referendum and decide to go for a de jure state. I am not saying that the British Government have never given funding to help Exchequers, but having read through a large number of plans for developing countries, I cannot recall seeing that they have. The difficulty with such debates is that we approach them thinking about the developed north and the developing south. We need to think about a system that will be effective for Chinese companies operating anywhere, be it in the Sudan or in Kazakhstan. If we are to have a system that is globally transparent—this is not just about UK banks and companies or US companies—it must apply to companies throughout the world, or it simply will not stick.