{"id":1918,"date":"2018-06-25T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:46:30","slug":"one-companys-tax-heaven-is-senegals-tax-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"One Company&#8217;s Tax &#8216;Heaven&#8217; Is Senegal&#8217;s Tax &#8216;Hell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A lopsided treaty between Mauritius and Senegal means, with the right paperwork, companies working in Senegal can avoid paying millions in taxes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest engineering companies scored a $50 million deal to build a processing plant in Senegal, one of the world&#8217;s poorest countries, it looked to a tiny Indian Ocean island for help. That island, Mauritius, has an established banking system, a level of political stability unusual across Africa and well-trained workforce. It is also a renowned tax haven. And Mauritius offered engineering company SNC-Lavalin a significant benefit: a lopsided treaty signed with Senegal that, with the right paperwork, made it easy for the Canadian firm to avoid up to $8.9 million in taxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/west-africa-leaks\/one-companys-tax-heaven-senegals-tax-hell\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally published on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/west-africa-leaks\/one-companys-tax-heaven-senegals-tax-hell\/\">ICIJ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lopsided treaty between Mauritius and Senegal means, with the right paperwork, companies working in Senegal can avoid paying millions in taxes.\u00a0 One of the world&#8217;s largest engineering companies scored a $50 million deal to build a processing plant in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[536,533,86,534,535,67],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-leaks","tag-mauritius","tag-senegal","tag-tax-haven","tag-tax-treaty","tag-west-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}