DutchNews, April 11,
2016
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| ABN Amro’s headquarters in Zuidas. Photo: DutchNews.nl |
ABN Amro is helping clients keep their assets
hidden in tax havens via nominee shareholdership schemes, the Financieele Dagblad and Trouw say on Monday.
The papers base their claim on leaked
documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca which cover 214,000
offshore companies, including a number with connections to the Netherlands.
ABN
Amro, which is majority state-owned, is the only big Dutch bank to help clients
in this way, the newspapers say.
The Panama Papers show ABN Amro has at least
six subsidiaries which operate as nominal shareholders. One of these is
Martello Nominees which is registered on the British Channel Island of
Guernsey.
Tax office
Martello, in turn, acts as a nominal shareholder in 25
companies located on the British Virgin Islands – so preventing the Dutch tax
office from finding out who the real owners are.
ABN Amro has at least five
other subsidiaries which offer similar services in the Channel Islands and in
Asia, the papers say.
A spokesman for the Dutch central bank said nominal
shareholdership is not illegal, as long as the banks keep to the law in the tax
havens where they are based and ensure the system is not abused.
Finance
minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has said he wants to set up a central register
listing all shareholders with more than 25% in Dutch companies to improve
transparency.
Inquiry
Opposition and Labour MPs are now calling for a mini
public inquiry into the way the Netherlands facilitates tax evasion via tax
havens, broadcaster Nos says. An inquiry would allow witnesses to be heard
under oath.
‘We want to know what tax constructions are being used in the
Netherlands,’ said Labour MP Ed Groot. ‘Multinationals say their tax set-ups
are legal. But that does not mean everything which is allowable by law is okay.
We need better rules.’
‘This is the top of the iceberg,’ said Socialist MP
Arnold Merkies. ‘If you consider that the Panama Papers come from one company
in Panama, then the real scandal is much bigger.’
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“… The Shift in Human Nature
You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.
You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.
In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?
Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.
What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”
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