Financial Times: Taxing times as companies quit UK
By Vanessa Houlder
Published: April 16 2008 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2008 03:00
* 2005
Royal Dutch Shell opted for a parent company with Dutch headquarters and tax residency when it overhauled its dual-listed structure
* 2006
Hiscox, a Lloyd’s specialist insurer, moved its head office to Bermuda
Omega Underwriting, an Aim-listed insurer, moved its domicile to Bermuda
Colt Telecom created a new Luxembourg-based holding company at the same time as a big financial restructuring
Experian set up European headquarters in Dublin when it demerged from GUS, the retail group
* 2007
Ebay, the online business, moved its tax base from the UK to Luxembourg
Kraft, the consumer company, moved its European headquarters from the UK and Austria to Switzerland
* 2008
Yahoo, the internet company, said earlier this year that it was moving its European headquarters to Switzerland
Shire creates a new group structure, with a parent company tax resident in Ireland, to ‘help protect the group’s taxation position, and better facilitate the group’s financial management’
Vanessa Houlder
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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