The recent attack on tax havens by the OECD has pictured about 20–30 countries, called tax havens, as financial cesspools destructive of the high tax systems of the world. The OECD argues that its members should gang up on these nations and shut them down by whatever means they can. This view needs to be corrected. Tax havens have a long and beneficial history serving civilization. To put tax havens in proper perspective we have to go back 3500 years to the Book of Joshua, even to the Books of Moses, where the Lord ordered the Children of Israel to … Continue reading An Historian Looks at Tax Havens