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Re:Financial Secrecy Index by eutropia on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:19PM (#28856271)
I clicked on the US and see that it gets loads of secrecy points in all kinds of categories, but 0 points from the category of "Consistent Personal Income Tax".

I laughed.

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Re:Financial Secrecy Index by throwaway6EQUJ5 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:25AM (#28861770)
I skimmed through the PDF about germany and found this interesting bit

>This [federal competition] has repeatedly served as an excuse to engage in ruinous intra-German ‘tax wars’ for lax enforcement, auditing and the hiring and staffing of local tax authorities.6

which i never heard of. So i check the source and got got redirected to just an image.

>http://www.taxjustice.net/topics/race-to-the-bottom/tax-wars...

Some of the listed sources there (https://fsi.taxjustice.net/PDF/Germany.pdf) are broken but not all, some do link to actual credible thrid parties.

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