Sovereign Threshold

Method

Two labels. Nothing else.

A reader who distrusts the people selling artificial intelligence should be able to check everything here. So every claim is sourced or labelled.

Running

Running A system operating today: a law in force, a reporting exchange, a court ruling, a documented case. Each carries a numbered source and the date it was checked. If we cannot cite it, we do not state it as running.

Extrapolation

Extrapolation What follows when running systems are joined. It is reasoning, and it is labelled as reasoning. We extrapolate only from systems already listed as running, never from speculation about systems that do not exist.

What we do not do

We do not give legal, tax or investment advice. We do not explain how to avoid lawful reporting. We do not predict dates. We do not sell on these pages.

Corrections

Sources change. When one is overtaken, we correct the page and update the date it was checked.

Sources

Checked September 29, 2026.

  1. 1NPR, via KPBS: Turkish habit of stashing gold ‘under the pillow’ hurts economy, government says (September 15, 2026)
  2. 2Türkiye Today: Why Türkiye keeps $311B in gold ‘under the pillow’
  3. 3Wikipedia, citing the OECD: Exchange of information (CRS statistics)
  4. 4Kirkland & Ellis: IRS to use AI to select partnerships for audit (September 2023)
  5. 5Cole Schotz: FinCEN residential real estate rule, effective March 1, 2026
  6. 6IFA Magazine: 55 billion items of taxpayer data on HMRC’s Connect system (May 2023)
  7. 7Wikipedia: 2016 Bitfinex hack
  8. 8ICIJ: Paradise of Untouchable Assets (2013)
  9. 9Al Jazeera: Ten years since Panama Papers (April 2026)
  10. 10eucrim: CJEU, no unrestricted access to data of beneficial owners
  11. 11Forbes: Senate committee vows to stop PPLI’s ‘$40 billion tax shelter’ (February 2024)
  12. 12Center for Art Law: AML regulations for UK art market participants
  13. 13TechCrunch: US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data (June 2023)