Dear Nurse Reilly and Dr Edgar (Consultant Psychiatrist),
REQUEST TO RE-SCHEDULE MY NOVEMBER 21st 2017 APPOINTMENT
Thank you for the two recent letters I have received from you, both dated November 10th
2017.
I feel I cannot sensibly attend tomorrow's assessment appointment for the following reasons:
1) To date, I have not received any reply of any kind from you to my
email of October 30th 2017, which contained the following statement:
"Provided you are in a position to let me have a written
acknowledgement of receipt for this email, I wish to confirm that I
would now like to proceed with the referral made on my behalf ten weeks or
so ago by my present GP, Dr D B Cheney."
I also sent a letter to you through the
Royal Mail Registered Letter Service,
also on
October 30th 2017, which contained a scanned "marked up"
copy of the email in question, together with scanned copies of the
associated Royal Mail receipt, and the Royal Mail "Proof of Delivery"
note. In case that for some reason you have not received this registered
letter, please know that there is a copy of it at the following www
location:"
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/BelfastHealthAndSocialCareTrust/30October2017/RegisteredLetter.htm
2) Despite my best efforts, I have still not managed to find any
legal representation of the kind which recognises, and supports,
the
CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF EUROPEAN UNION. A copy of my
most recent email to the Belfast Branch of The Law Centre of Northern
Ireland, in connection with this problem, and for which I have not received
any reply so far, can be viewed at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/TheNorthernIrelandLawCentre/16November2017/Gmail.html
Provided you can let me have a written acknowledgement of receipt for
this email, it would be much appreciated if you could please arrange a
new appointment for me.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to provide you with the
text of a very recent FACEBOOK Publication which, as I see things,
relates directly to the ongoing
"medical and legal difficulties" I am experiencing, which
began around 1998. Please find the FACEBOOK text in question in the
sections below.
Yours sincerely,
William Finnerty.
Web Site:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com
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"THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND IS AMONG WORLD'S BEST TAX HAVENS"
(Please see below for additional information on this subject)
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THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND "THE PARADISE PAPERS"
"Paradise Papers' documents show Apple's two Irish (Republic of
Ireland) subsidiaries, Apple Operations International (AOI),
believed to hold most of Apple's massive $252 billion (€217
billion) overseas cashpile, and Apple Sales International (ASI),
were managed from Appleby's office in Jersey from the start of
2015 until early 2016, according to the BBC."
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Paradise Papers reveal how Apple moved untaxed cash reserve from
(Republic of) Ireland to Jersey
Updated / Monday, 6 Nov 2017 22:48
The BBC reports that the US firm moved the firm holding most of
its huge untaxed offshore cash reserve from (the Republic of)
Ireland to the Channel Island of Jersey.
The Paradise Papers reveal how Apple has managed to sidestep a
2013 crackdown on its controversial tax practices in (the
Republic of) Ireland, with a new tax structure that continues to
enable the company to avoid paying billions in taxes.
The BBC reports the US firm moved most of its huge untaxed
offshore cash reserve from (Republic of) Ireland to the Channel
Island of Jersey.
The leaked papers show that in March 2014 Apple's legal advisers
sent a questionnaire to Appleby, an offshore finance law firm,
asking questions such as was it possible to "obtain an official
assurance of tax exemption" and could it be confirmed that an
Irish company might "conduct management activities… without
being subject to taxation in your jurisdiction".
Apple chose Jersey, a UK Crown dependency that makes its own tax
laws and which has a 0% corporate tax rate for foreign
companies.
Paradise Papers' documents show Apple's two Irish subsidiaries,
Apple Operations International (AOI), believed to hold most of
Apple's massive $252 billion (€217 billion) overseas cashpile,
and Apple Sales International (ASI), were managed from Appleby's
office in Jersey from the start of 2015 until early 2016,
according to the BBC.
This would have enabled Apple to continue avoiding billions in
tax around the world, however, Apple said the new structures
have not lowered the amount of tax the company pays.
David Murphy: EU needs to clean up its act
What are the Paradise Papers?
Up to 2014, Apple had been exploiting a loophole in tax laws
both in the US and here known as the "double Irish", which
allowed the company to funnel all its sales outside of the
Americas through Irish subsidiaries that were effectively
stateless for taxation purposes, and so incurred hardly any tax.
The EU Commission calculated that the move allowed Apple to to
pay an effective tax rate of 1% on EU profits in 2003, down to
0.005% in 2014.
In a statement, Apple has said the changes which it made to its
corporate structure in 2015 were "specially designed to preserve
its tax payments to the United States, not to reduce its taxes
anywhere else."
They add that no operations or investments were moved from
(the Republic of) Ireland.
The statement says that when
(the Republic of)
Ireland "changed its tax laws in 2015, we complied by changing
the residency of our Irish subsidiaries and we informed (the
Republic of) Ireland, the European Commission and the US."
Apple add that they have paid €1.5bn in tax in
(the Republic of)
Ireland over the past three years.
The leaked papers from Appleby reveal investments by wealthy
individuals and institutions around the globe.
EU to compile blacklist of tax havens
European Union finance ministers will tomorrow discuss setting
up a blacklist of worldwide tax havens, EU officials said.
EU countries had planned for months to reach an agreement on a
blacklist for tax havens by the end of this year.
The new revelations prompted the discussion to be brought
forward, EU officials said, but no final decision was expected
tomorrow.
The EU has discussed several measures to crack down on tax
avoidance in the past, including in the wake of the "Panama
Papers", a release by the ICIJ last year which chronicled a
shadowy world of offshore holdings and hidden wealth.
Measures previously discussed include an EU-wide list of tax
havens meant to discourage the rerouting of profits made in the
EU to tax-free or low-tax countries, like Panama or Bermuda.
At the moment, each EU country has its own list of jurisdictions
that are seen as less cooperative on tax matters.
Criteria to define a tax haven vary greatly among EU states and
some of them include no jurisdictions in their national
blacklists.
An EU blacklist is believed to carry more weight. Jurisdictions
included in the list could be subject to sanctions if they did
not cooperate.
There are no details yet of the type of sanctions to be
discussed, although being on the blacklist in itself could
discourage individuals and companies from putting money in those
jurisdictions.
Some EU countries remain sceptical about the blacklist and are
themselves under scrutiny for unfair tax competition. To win
over their resistance, the proposed EU blacklist would apply
only to non-EU countries.
(Republic of Ireland)
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohue has said Ireland
will continue to play its role in dealing with the issue of
aggressive avoidance of tax.
Also, states which charge no corporate taxes will not be
automatically considered tax havens, under a preliminary deal
reached by EU finance ministers last year.
On tax matters the EU can take decisions only with the unanimous
backing of its 28 member states, unless extraordinary procedures
are launched - an option never tested so far.
To reduce the appeal of tax havens, Brussels has also proposed
the setting up of public registries that would show the real
owners of companies, which are often hidden by frontmen in shell
firms in offshore jurisdictions.
It has also proposed compulsory reporting by large multinational
firms of profits made and taxes paid in each state where they
operate, in a bid to show how much of their revenues are booked
in low-tax countries.
EU states have been long discussing both proposals, but no deal
has been reached yet.
"EU governments such as Germany have been standing against the
rising tide of financial transparency," said Carl Dolan,
director of Transparency International EU.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that
U2 frontman Bono
(Republic of Ireland) is among a line-up of high-profile
celebrities to be named in the Paradise Papers.
It is alleged he used a company based in Malta, a low-tax
jurisdiction, to pay for a share in a shopping centre based in
Lithuania.
Three actors with the
(Republic of Ireland's) Mrs Brown's Boys comedy show were
paid through an offshore structure that sheltered them from
paying income tax on hundreds of thousands of euro each, the
Paradise Papers also show.
The actors are Fiona Delany who plays Maria Brown in the show.
She is the daughter of the show's creator, Brendan O'Carroll.
Her husband Martin, who plays Fr Trevor Brown, was also
involved. Paddy Houlihan, who plays Dermot Brown in the comedy
show, was also paid through the scheme.
The information is contained in a vast leak of financial papers
obtained by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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involved in offshore investments
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It is part of the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists, along with other media organisations such as The
Irish Times and The Guardian.
The leaked papers reportedly reveal that Bono, under his real
name Paul Hewson, was an investor in the Maltese company Nude
Estates, which bought the shopping centre.
A spokesperson for the singer said that Bono was a "passive,
minority investor in Nude Estates Malta Ltd, a company that was
legally registered in Malta until it was voluntarily wound up in
2015".
The tax arrangements of Bono and U2 have come under fire in the
past.
In 2009, protesters outside the Department of Finance accused
him of robbing the world's poorest people by storing some of his
wealth in a tax haven in the Netherlands.
At the time, the band's manager, Paul McGuiness, said U2 paid
taxes all over the world and operated "in a tax-efficient
manner".
In 2011, a protest was held against the band's tax status during
their set at Glastonbury, with activists inflating a three-metre
balloon emblazoned with the message "U Pay Your Tax 2".
The Irish Times also reported that the leaked documents detail
how Bank of Ireland
(Republic of Ireland) and AIB (Republic of Ireland)
helped wealthy individuals here avoid tax and disclosure by
moving money offshore into tax havens.
The huge leak of financial documents in the Paradise Papers
gives an insight into how some of the world's most powerful
people and big-name companies invest offshore.
The investigation involves 13.4 million documents, 94 media
partners and more than 120 politicians and world leaders,
according to the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ).
The papers contain details relating to the estate of Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth and how the funds are invested.
The Guardian said millions of pounds from Queen Elizabeth's
estate, the Duchy of Lancaster, had been invested in a Cayman
Islands fund as part of an offshore portfolio never before
disclosed.
The newspaper said the Duchy had used offshore private equity
funds designed to shield investors in the UK from having to pay
US tax on their holdings.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace declined to comment, while a
spokeswoman for the Duchy of Lancaster said: "We operate a
number of investments and a few of these are with overseas
funds. All of our investments are fully audited and legitimate."
They also said the Queen voluntarily pays tax on any income
received from the Duchy.
Elsewhere, the offshore dealings of some of the cabinet members
of US President Donald Trump are among those exposed.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross allegedly kept investments in
a shipping firm with significant business ties to Russian
President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.
Partnerships used by Mr Ross, a billionaire investor helping to
shape President Trump's trade policy, have a 31% stake in
Navigator Holdings, which the New York Times said earns millions
of dollars a year transporting gas for Russian petrochemical
firm Sibur.
Gennady Timchenko, a Russian oligarch and Putin associate
subject to US sanctions, and Mr Putin's son-in-law, Kirill
Shamalov, are Sibur stakeholders, said the Times, which based
its report on files from Appleby, a prominent offshore law firm.
A Department of Commerce spokesman said Mr Ross "was not
involved in Navigator's decision to engage in business with
Sibur".
He added that Sibur had not been under sanctions when Navigator
began its relationship with the publicly-traded firm and still
was not.
According to the Times, Sibur said in a statement that any
negotiations with Navigator over the years were carried out by
its executives, not its major shareholders, and that "no
meetings were held with Mr Ross."
Big name global firms such as Apple and Nike are among more than
100 multinational companies whose tax affairs are thrown into
the spotlight.
A Nike spokesman said: "Nike complies with tax regulations and
we rigorously ensure our tax filings are aligned with how we run
our business, the investments we make and the jobs we create.
"Through employment, economic activity, and taxes paid, Nike is
a significant contributor in many economies around the world."
The tax haven ventures of multinational companies in Africa and
Asia that use shell companies in Mauritius and Singapore to cut
taxes also feature, according to the ICIJ.
It gives details of how Isle of Man tax-avoidance structures are
used by wealthy jet and yacht owners.
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RTE
The text in the first section above has come from the following
RTE www location:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1106/917722-paradise-papers/
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Related Google Listing:
RTE, William Finnerty:
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THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND IS AMONG WORLD'S BEST TAX HAVENS:
https://goo.gl/bjufTs
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GROWING TAX AVOIDANCE MONSTER
"The shape-shifting offshore monster is growing, as countries
vie with each other to attract the world's hot money with the
latest and most devious new secrecy facility ...":
https://goo.gl/Tqz9CV
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1) Nicholas Shaxson, Human Rights Ireland, William Finnerty:
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2) Money Laundering, Rothschilds:
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3) Invisible Banking, Rothschilds:
https://goo.gl/8EnFnb
The above text in this section has come from:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DayOfProtest/RepublicOfIreland/14October2017.htm
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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ON OCTOBER
14th 2017
Additional information on some of the "background" to this
demonstration in Dublin on October 14th 2017 can be found at the
following www location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DayOfProtest/RepublicOfIreland/14October2017.htm
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RELATED FACEBOOK PUBLICATIONS:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/index.htm#20November2017
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HUMAN RIGHTS IRELAND
http://www.humanrightsireland.com
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