<synthesis> MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all, 

we invite you to follow the 6th stream of MoneyLab #8 and to share your
comments and questions trough the live chat.

 

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES
https://aksioma.org/moneylab8


STREAM #6 / Monday, 15 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft

With RYBN.ORG and Demystification Committee

Moderated by Anuška Delić

 

Tax havens are a popular topic for bar rants about The Others, those dirty
scumbags who came to possess vast sums of money through means, networks,
tools and methods an everyday earthling does not have access to. It is
generally assumed the funds are a result of some money laundering/public
corruption/criminal operation (as they often are), or of a "perfectly legal
and legitimate" tax avoidance scheme. By law, only tax evasion is illegal,
while the rest are legal methods of "cashing in" individual benefits, i.e.,
tax deductions for dependables. The public seemingly responds to revelations
by authorities, journalists, and others about the millions in national
currencies that have sunk into exotic offshore locations with the resigned
realisation that everything will remain the same. This is true, but it also
obfuscates the real consequences of tax havens: the millions of euros that
never reach a country's budget and are often a result of transnational
crime. After the Panama Papers shook the global markets in 2016, some states
fought back by installing registers of beneficial owners. Yet, they can
hardly do anything about the flourishing offshore financial industry. To do
so would go against the grain of the national economies of giants like the
USA, where some states are "onshore" havens. Meanwhile the global public is
complicit in this normalisation because, honestly, it is complicated to
think about taxes and tax havens, right? Let this panel of investigative
artists talking to an investigative journalist make it easier for you.
RYBN.ORG will take you on an intimate ride aboard The Great Offshore,
guiding you gently through offshore finance in infamous locations, like
Malta, to help you identify with The Others. Then the Demystification
Committee will show you how you can even become one of Them by receiving
guidance from their Offshore Investigation Vehicle to set up your own global
corporate structure.

 

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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

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