Brigitte Alepin
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Brigitte Alepin is a Montreal chartered accountant and tax specialist. This article is excerpted with permission from Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes ... Like We Do! ( Lorimer 2012), a translated and updated version of her book La crise fiscale qui vient. It was translated by Bob Chodos, Eric Hamovitch and Susan Joanis.
Tax havens have become sanctuaries for an array of multinational firms and their subsidiaries or corporate parents.