OFFSHORE GAMBLING IN PACIFIC ISLANDS TAX HAVENS

Authors

Anthony B. van Fossen, Griffith UniversityFollow

Abstract

This article analyzes offshore (including Internet) gambling in Oceania-particularly its uneven development in Vanuatu, the Cook Islands, Norfolk Island, and Palau. Offshore gambling's evolution and future prospects are examined in terms of tensions between (1) the drive by entrepreneurs and regional taw-haven promoters to increase the volume and variety of gambling among the array of services that Pacific Islands tax havens provide and (2) the growing moves by metropolitan countries to curb taw avoidance and evasion, economic loss, money laundering, and other forms of crime and deviant behavior associated with offshore gambling.

Recommended Citation

van Fossen, Anthony B. (2003) "OFFSHORE GAMBLING IN PACIFIC ISLANDS TAX HAVENS," Pacific Studies Journal: Vol. 26: No. 2, Article 1.
Available at: https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/pacific-studies-journal/vol26/iss2/1