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Pandora Papers: Huge Trove of Leaked Documents Reveal How Uber Rich Dodge Taxes
A cache of nearly 12 million documents were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The documents included private emails, secret contracts and other records obtained during a two-year investigation involving more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories.
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In what’s being called the “biggest-ever leak of offshore data,” a cache of nearly 12 million documents published Sunday laid bare the hidden wealth, secret dealings and corruption of hundreds of world leaders, billionaires, public officials, celebrities and others.
The bombshell revelations — known as the Pandora Papers — were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and include private emails, secret contracts and other records obtained during a two-year investigation involving more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories.
“This is the Panama Papers on steroids,” said ICIJ director Gerard Ryle, referring to the 2016 exposé of the tax-evading secrets of the super-rich. “It’s broader, richer and has more detail.”
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NEW: #PandoraPapers reveals the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else. Brought to you by ICIJ and 600+ journalists, the largest collaboration in journalism history.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' 2021 investigation the Pandora Papers reveals how the offshore money machine operates in every cor...
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11:37 AM · Oct 3, 2021
According to The Guardian:
“More than 100 billionaires feature in the leaked data, as well as celebrities, rock stars, and business leaders. Many use shell companies to hold luxury items such as property and yachts, as well as incognito bank accounts. There is even art ranging from looted Cambodian antiquities to paintings by Picasso and murals by Banksy.”
“There’s never been anything on this scale and it shows the reality of what offshore companies can offer to help people hide dodgy cash or avoid tax,” said ICIJ’s Fergus Shiel, who added that the people in the files “are using those offshore accounts, those offshore trusts, to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of property in other countries, and to enrich their own families, at the expense of their citizens.”
The leaked documents reveal how some of the world’s wealthiest people avert the financial consequences of their misdeeds by using offshore entities.
Dozens of current and former world leaders feature prominently in the files, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
While most of the richest Americans do not appear in the files, The Washington Post reports that “perhaps the most troubling revelations for the United States … center on its expanding complicity in the offshore economy.”
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Why so few US names in Pandora Papers? Largely because US is itself a spectacularly corrupt tax haven. “Financial experts said the uber-rich in the United States tend to pay such low tax rates that they have less incentive to seek offshore havens.”
Billions hidden beyond reach
Newly revealed Pandora Papers documents detail an opaque financial universe where the global elite shield riches from taxes, criminal probes and public accountability.
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12:46 PM · Oct 3, 2021
Chuck Collins, author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, and co-editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies, said in a statement that “the U.S. has become the weak link in stopping global crime and wealth hiding.”
“States like South Dakota and Delaware have morphed their laws to attract billions, sometimes illicitly obtained, from around the world,” he said. “We in the U.S. should be embarrassed that we’ve become a magnet for kleptocratic funds.”
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Collins added that the Pandora Papers show “it is time for U.S. lawmakers to shut down the hidden wealth system that allows for such aggressive tax avoidance and the sequestering of wealth.”
ICIJ said Sunday that the “publication of Pandora Papers stories comes at a critical moment in a global debate over the fairness of the international tax system, the role of Western professionals in the shadow economy, and the failure of governments to stanch the flow of dirty money into hidden companies and trusts,” and that the documents “are expected to yield new revelations for years to come.”
Originally published by Common Dreams.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandora-papers-leaked-documents-rich-dodge-taxes/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e41ed766-88ed-480c-8059-d0e06a7edfd8
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A cache of nearly 12 million documents were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The documents included private emails, secret contracts and other records obtained during a two-year investigation involving more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories.
By
Brett Wilkins
Link copied
The Defender is experiencing censorship on many social channels. Be sure to stay in touch with the news that matters by subscribing to our top news of the day. It's free.
In what’s being called the “biggest-ever leak of offshore data,” a cache of nearly 12 million documents published Sunday laid bare the hidden wealth, secret dealings and corruption of hundreds of world leaders, billionaires, public officials, celebrities and others.
The bombshell revelations — known as the Pandora Papers — were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and include private emails, secret contracts and other records obtained during a two-year investigation involving more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories.
“This is the Panama Papers on steroids,” said ICIJ director Gerard Ryle, referring to the 2016 exposé of the tax-evading secrets of the super-rich. “It’s broader, richer and has more detail.”
ICIJ
@ICIJorg
NEW: #PandoraPapers reveals the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else. Brought to you by ICIJ and 600+ journalists, the largest collaboration in journalism history.
Pandora Papers: An unprecedented leak exposes the inner workings of a...
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' 2021 investigation the Pandora Papers reveals how the offshore money machine operates in every cor...
youtube.com
11:37 AM · Oct 3, 2021
According to The Guardian:
“More than 100 billionaires feature in the leaked data, as well as celebrities, rock stars, and business leaders. Many use shell companies to hold luxury items such as property and yachts, as well as incognito bank accounts. There is even art ranging from looted Cambodian antiquities to paintings by Picasso and murals by Banksy.”
“There’s never been anything on this scale and it shows the reality of what offshore companies can offer to help people hide dodgy cash or avoid tax,” said ICIJ’s Fergus Shiel, who added that the people in the files “are using those offshore accounts, those offshore trusts, to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of property in other countries, and to enrich their own families, at the expense of their citizens.”
The leaked documents reveal how some of the world’s wealthiest people avert the financial consequences of their misdeeds by using offshore entities.
Dozens of current and former world leaders feature prominently in the files, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
While most of the richest Americans do not appear in the files, The Washington Post reports that “perhaps the most troubling revelations for the United States … center on its expanding complicity in the offshore economy.”
Philip Gourevitch
@PGourevitch
Why so few US names in Pandora Papers? Largely because US is itself a spectacularly corrupt tax haven. “Financial experts said the uber-rich in the United States tend to pay such low tax rates that they have less incentive to seek offshore havens.”
Billions hidden beyond reach
Newly revealed Pandora Papers documents detail an opaque financial universe where the global elite shield riches from taxes, criminal probes and public accountability.
washingtonpost.com
12:46 PM · Oct 3, 2021
Chuck Collins, author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, and co-editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies, said in a statement that “the U.S. has become the weak link in stopping global crime and wealth hiding.”
“States like South Dakota and Delaware have morphed their laws to attract billions, sometimes illicitly obtained, from around the world,” he said. “We in the U.S. should be embarrassed that we’ve become a magnet for kleptocratic funds.”
Between now and midnight October 31, a generous benefactor will match all donations to CHD -- up to $1 million! Donate Now!
Collins added that the Pandora Papers show “it is time for U.S. lawmakers to shut down the hidden wealth system that allows for such aggressive tax avoidance and the sequestering of wealth.”
ICIJ said Sunday that the “publication of Pandora Papers stories comes at a critical moment in a global debate over the fairness of the international tax system, the role of Western professionals in the shadow economy, and the failure of governments to stanch the flow of dirty money into hidden companies and trusts,” and that the documents “are expected to yield new revelations for years to come.”
Originally published by Common Dreams.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandora-papers-leaked-documents-rich-dodge-taxes/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e41ed766-88ed-480c-8059-d0e06a7edfd8
Thanks to: https://childrenshealthdefense.org
