Stop Tax Haven Abuse bill

Disclosures filed in 2008 show that six governments--Aruba, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein and the States of Jersey--and the Bank of the Netherlands Antilles employed U.S. lobbyists, paying a total of $2.3 million in fees. Those lobbyists had at least 222 contacts with members of Congress, their staff and executive branch officials in which they discussed tax laws, legislation aimed at tax havens like the Stop Tax Haven Abuse bill, or efforts to negotiate tax exchange information agreements with the United States and other countries, a review of data in Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker (online at www.foreignlobbying.org) shows.