Tax Havens

Countries where the wealthy tend to look to keep their cash,

With few if any questions asked about the largest stash;

Money can be transferred there and then withdrawn quite soon;

With many short-lived bank accounts, their banking world is strewn.

Their rates of tax are very low, if they exist at all,

So tax on any profits gained will always be quite small.

They’re good at keeping secrets, and believe that none should know

About the billions every year which through their systems flow.

They’re happy with the companies that they know are just a shell,

Used for moving money round and hiding it as well.

There’s much that is quite legal, though perhaps not moral too,

With all the sums deposited, or merely passing through.

But there is little doubt that crooks of them make constant use,

Providing as they do the means by which they can reduce

Their millions of ill-gotten gains to funds that can’t be traced;

With no-one asking questions on  just what their wealth is based.