With the help of lawyers, accountants, white-shoe professionals and complicit Western governments, the wealthy and well-connected have avoided paying trillions of dollars in taxes. The cost to governments is estimated at over $800-billion per year. This article from the ICIJ reminds us what tax havens are, how they operate, and why the Panama Papers is still such an important project, four years after it broke.
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