1. Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
2. The Check-the-Box Loophole
   The Great Corporate Tax Shift
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
3. Corporate Canada pays low taxes but contributes in 'lots of other ways'
   Canada's corporate tax rate has been repeatedly cut for more than a decade
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Canadians for Tax Fairness did an analysis of the top 60 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and found only four companies paid the full corporate rate. More than half paid less than 10 per cent, and 13 firms paid less than five per cent. Corporate shills claim that's OK because they contribute in 'other ways.'
4. Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
   Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
   But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
5. The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
   Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
6. The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
7. Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
   Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
8. Give Us Our Money Back!
   How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
9. The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2015
   It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
10. The Great Corporate Tax Shift
    The $10 Trillion Heist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are increasingly uncompetitive with their foreign rivals due to the fact they allegedly pay higher corporate taxes.
11. How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
    Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down
    Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ownership of offshore assets in protracted divorce proceedings.
12. ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
13. Journalist arrested, authorities urged to respect his rights
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Kostas Vaxevanis, the editor of the Greek weekly Hot Doc and producer of the national TV programme Koutis Tis Pandoras (Pandora’s Box), after he published a list of around 2,000 suspected tax evaders.
14. Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
15. Killing the Host
    How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
16. Leak Ties Ethics Guru to Three Men Charged in FIFA Scandal
    Secret documents show how deeply the world of soccer has become enmeshed in the world of offshore havens
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Four of the 16 FIFA officials indicted in the United States used offshore companies created by Mossack Fonseca. Files show offshore companies used by some soccer players to hold money from image rights deals. Offshore revelations extend beyond soccer to other sports including hockey and golf.
17. Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
18. Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    NDP leader Davis Lewis provides facts and analysis to support his charge that "government and big business are holding hands -- in your pocket."
19. No Fooling - Corporations Evade Taxes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
    Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
    Resisting Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Tax Evasion
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
24. Panama Papers show that capitalism is working perfectly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    While corporate fraud is gargantuan in its scale, it is not the expression of a system that "isn't working". In fact, this is the way the system is designed to work.
25. Panama Papers: The Power Players
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
26. Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
    Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting business from one secrecy jurisdiction to another. Among additional services offered are yacht and plane registrations, and, for some clients, handling of finances. Mossack Fonseca kept a low profile -- until recent scandals brought international attention.
27. The Price We Pay
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
28. Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans’ plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
29. Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
30. Stairway to Tax Heaven
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
31. Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) offered services to clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery. HSBC served those close to discredited regimes such as that of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian president Ben Ali and current Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The bank repeatedly reassured clients that it would not disclose details of accounts to national authorities, even if evidence suggested that the accounts were undeclared to tax authorities in the client’s home country.
32. Tax Evasion
    Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
33. Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    
34. Tracking down tax havens (book review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    
35. Unfair Shares
    Corporations and Taxation in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
36. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.

Experts on Tax Evasion in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch