From Panama to the Pandora Papers, not enough has changed
The rich and powerful continue to evade and avoid tax despite progress in recent years.
The latest data leak detailing the financial affairs of the global elite makes clear how much progress has been achieved since the world began to clamp down in earnest on offshore tax evasion and avoidance in 2008 – and how much still remains to be done.
Leaders who include King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech prime minister Andrej Babis and Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s strongman president for 18 years, have been named by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for using offshore tax havens to store and move their money.
Financial Times
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