Tax justice
Val Jenner and Barbara Forbes argue that paradise for a few means purgatory for many
The revelations in the ‘Paradise Papers’ shocked even those of us who thought we were unshockable: Lewis Hamilton’s convoluted arrangements to avoid paying tax on his millions of pounds of earnings; the queen’s private wealth invested in the Cayman Islands, with prince Charles making a huge profit through a friend’s offshore firm; powerful voices in the Brexit campaign revealed as beneficiaries of offshore investments; and a long list of well-known figures from all over the world whose greed has over decades deprived their countries of much-needed funds to be used for the common good. Day after day, emails arrive in our inboxes from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) providing the details behind the broader story.
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