Thank you very much.
It seems that the discussion is not about public dissemination of tax records but more specifically about public transparency of the ownership of companies and trusts. That's the key point here.
The specific question was, are there best practices? I don't know where there are: certainly not in the United States. It's been estimated that for some two million companies in the United States no one knows who owns those entities. These are probably SMEs. They certainly aren't multinational corporations, of course, but small to medium-sized companies, and when they are incorporated, they are incorporated using an incorporation agency, a buffer between the actual ownership of that entity and the public. No one knows. The state doesn't know who owns the company, and that's a problem.
Viktor Bout is an infamous international arms dealer who was just prosecuted in the United States last year. He had over a dozen shell corporations in the United States, in Florida and Texas, that he used to help launder profits from arms sales around the world. That's just one of numerous examples that I could provide to you of the adverse effect of having this secrecy in...[Technical difficulty—Editor]. These are not tax forms we're talking about; it's just who owns the company. I think that's the specific issue we're trying to get at today.