Allowing secrecy within a country sphere of influence
This indicator takes into account whether a country contributes to enabling financial secrecy indirectly, via jurisdictions that are within a country’s sphere of influence. For example the UK crown dependencies and the Dutch constituent countries all score poorly on the financial secrecy index; so does the US Virgin Islands. Countries receive 1 point if no such jurisdictions exist within their sphere of influence and 0 points if they do.