Please write to oecd - an appeal

[Guest guest]

During a meeting held in Chennai on 1 May 2009 when Prof. Vaidyanathan

and Shri MR Venkatesh made brilliant presentations on the public loot in

tax havens abroad and use of participatory notes to stash away monies,

Shri BS Raghavan, IAS (Retd.) mada a suggestion that civil society

should bring pressure to bear upon OECD appealing to the moral

responsibility of developed nations to facilitate the return of the

public loot kept in tax havens.

I fully endorse this excellent suggestion of Shri Raghavan. Here is a

sample of an email sent toberlin.centre

<berlin.centre

Please write similar letters to berlin.centre and forward this message

to your friends. The voices of over a million citizens of the world will

have to be heard by every developed democracy.

Thanking you for your consideration and with the best regards,

Dhanyavaadah.

Kalyanaraman

 

Sample email

 

TAX HAVENS AND TAX EVASIONS - REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE

 

 

Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM

 

 

TAX HAVENS AND TAX EVASIONS - REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE

berlin.centre <berlin.centre

Dear Sirs,

 

We, the ordinary citizens of India, understand, with great consternation

and deep concern, that large sums of illegally and surreptitiously

looted money are allegedly stashed away by hundreds and thousands of

unscrupulous, corrupt, knavish politicians, civil servants,

industrialists, businessmen, judges, drug mafia and several others, in

tax havens. You would please agree that the said money has been

plundered from the honest tax paying citizens of the country, to whom it

must rightfully be returned.

 

If the guesstimates are to be believed, $1.5 trillion of Indian money is

so stashed away, and it means that 750 million Indians have been

impoverished at the rate of Rs.100,000 each (which is equivalent of an

entire life earnings for most Indians.)

 

It is the moral responsibility of G-7 nations to get the tax havens to

declare the moneys of poor countries held and compel the financial

institutions of these tax havens to return the money to the poor

countries forthwith.

 

Kindly enlighten the citizens of India on what Germany proposes to do to

make this return of poor peoples' monies a reality.

 

Thanking you for your consideration & hoping for a kind reply,