Pronunciation of the English word havens.
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1. | The Panama Papers show how a Panamanian law firm helped its clients set up shell companies in tax havens around the world. | |
2. | Global capital is too often unaccountable—nearly $8 trillion stashed away in tax havens, a shadow banking system that grows beyond the reach of effective oversight. | |
3. | There are more than 60 tax havens around the world. | |
4. | Some taxpayers use tax havens to avoid paying their taxes. | |
5. | Most tax havens have strict secrecy laws. | |
6. | We need to close loopholes that allow corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid paying their fair share of taxes through tax havens and tax avoidance, trillions of dollars that could be going towards pressing needs like education and health care and infrastructure. | |
7. | At the 31st African Union Summit in Mauritania last week, African heads of state said they want to prevent billions more being stolen by seeking to abolish banking secrecy and tax havens. | |
8. | Fears of a global recession mounted this week, as a host of factors combined to send investors retreating to the safest havens they could find and forced policymakers to make plans to counteract a possible global economic slowdown. | |
9. | In the United States, the major stock market indices at one point were down three percentage points on Monday, as investors rushed to safe havens, including gold and U.S. Treasury bonds. |