Eye for an I

Five havens of the world-the United States, Ireland, Bermuda, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands-facilitate ninety per cent of the corporate tax avoidance of all multinational corporations, causing among the honest plebeian masses-at least honest enough-many national outcries.And elsewhere, sleepless nights... The impending G20 Summit in Australia looks set to scrutinise much of the profit-shifting arrangements-for want of a better word-of every global company there is. Just like at the...
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Five havens of the world-the United States, Ireland, Bermuda, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands-facilitate ninety per cent of the corporate tax avoidance of all multinational corporations, causing among the honest plebeian masses-at least honest enough-many national outcries.And elsewhere, sleepless nights... The impending G20 Summit in Australia looks set to scrutinise much of the profit-shifting arrangements-for want of a better word-of every global company there is. Just like at the World Economic Forum earlier in the year, security for the world's heads of state, dignitaries and staff at the G20 will be crucial, especially as billions of dollars of offshore-channelled funds may be at risk for some of the most powerfully influential of executives and, of course, politicians...Luthan Fennes, aka the 'Retimer', is heading to the G20 as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's best secret operative. Intel about threats on home soil to the G20 has degaussed him from his overseas missions for now, and here is what he is made for... But if even just one of those corporations has a terrorist to breach the G20 cordons, home, for Fennes, will become a worldwide stage again... Those corporations have an eye out for themselves, but so does the Retimer.