I mentioned my new Briefing on the Big 4 and secrecy jurisdictions on Friday.
Perhaps the most important data to highlight is in just which secrecy jurisdictions the Big 4 operate. The following table was researched in the summer of 2009 and is based on a variety of sources from the Big 4 including their annual reports and various web sites they run (Deloitte India was very useful, for example!), necessitated by the fact that by no means all the sources agree (an interesting point in its own right):
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PWC has 19 offices in Hong Kong – nonsense!
I think you will find most of those offices are in mainland China, not renowned hitherto as a tax haven, while all but one of those in central Hong Kong are on the same street.
Richard,
I think the fact that you chose to include Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzaerland, the Unted States and the UK amongst others undermines your point. Whatever the laws may be in those countries, the several hundred thousand accountants who work for the Big 4 firms in all those countries do not spend every hour of every working day dreaming up offshore tax shelters.