Usborne Money Reading for Beginners - Offshore Banking

What is the money that businesses and people pay to governments when they earn their money called?

(a)  

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Offshore tax havens are the places where governments demand max tax.

• True.

• False

Shell companies are the ones that are registered in​ an ​ (a)   ​ but has no ​ (b)   .

• address
• employees
• managers
• guards
• beach

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

People like Danise in the story can pay ​ (a)   tax if she sets up a ​ (b)   company.

• less
• shell
• small
• more
• big

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What are the names of two famous tax havens?

• Phu Quoc Islands

• Cayman Islands

• Channel Islands

• Indonesia

How much do governments worldwide lose in tax each year because of the tax havens?

• $700 billion

• $7000 billion

• $7 billion

• $70000 billion

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2C

Banks always public their depositors' identities and money activities.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

If governments had ​ (a)   money from tax, they would have ​ (b)   to spend on people in need.

• more
• fewer
• big
• little

If the banks don't check where depositors get their money from, or how they spend their it, it makes it easy for criminals to ... .

(a)  

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

What can businesses do when they pay less tax?

• They have more money to invest.

• They can create more jobs.

• They can make the products cheaper.

• All the above answers.