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World famous Mount Rushmore National Monument.

The world’s rich and powerful are stashing $674b in this unlikely US tax haven

South Dakota is the home of Mount Rushmore and cattle and pigs outnumber the citizens by a factor of six. It is also a favourite place for the wealthy to store their assets.

  • Anders Melin

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The Pandora Papers: what’s in the box?

Today on Please Explain, business investigative reporter Sarah Danckert joins Jess Irvine to discuss the biggest data leak of offshore tax details in history.

  • Jessica Irvine
We have comprehensive “attribution” provisions that tax passive income earned by offshore entities controlled by Australians.

Pandora Papers - the tax nerd’s view

Australians with undisclosed overseas assets should seriously consider making a clean breast to the ATO before the tax office comes knocking.

  • Mark Molesworth
The ATO will set its sights on the Pandora Papers, which reveal details of offshore accounts.

The Pandora Papers explained

The Pandora Papers have been described as one of the world’s biggest data leaks and lifts the lid on the parallel economy of offshore finance.

  • Charlotte Grieve
Steven Harker says he has always paid his taxes and disclosed his holdings to his employers and authorities.

‘Not avoiding tax’: Westpac director digs in after Pandora Papers expose

Westpac director Steven Harker says he used a Samoan superannuation fund set up by one of the firms at the centre of an investigative journalism sting to avoid paying more tax than necessary.

  • Sarah Danckert
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the change will reassure small businesses that an independent umpire will stand between them and the ATO in debt-recovery situations.

Secrets of the rich and famous: ATO to review Pandora Papers leak

The ATO says it will analyse a trove of secret documents that allegedly shows the secret tax affairs of the super wealthy and famous to see if it can identify any possible Australian links.

  • Sarah Danckert
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The details about offshore assets held by King Abdullah of Jordan, a long-standing US ally, are particularly striking. Documents show that he used a constellation of shell companies to conceal purchases of luxury properties in California, London and the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, DC.

Pandora Papers leak expose offshore financial systems used by the rich and famous

A massive trove of private financial records exposes secretive offshore systems used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors and criminal investigators.

  • Greg Miller, Debbie Cenziper and Peter Whoriskey

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