A foreign investor’s tax guide to the CIVETs

August 31 2012

Joe Dalton examines the tax regimes of the CIVETs countries to discover whether they truly constitute attractive and secure future investment destinations for multinationals, or if the term is simply another economist’s efforts to jump on the acronym bandwagon.

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