fossilesque@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoGlobal super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfamwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1396
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minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-23 days agoShell companies registered in Nevis Island, which doesn’t keep records of who owns which company after they set it up, so they say. Invade that island, lock all those businesses, and watch the billionaires cry.
minus-squareforrgott@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoWell, or they just go something very similar in the us, just with a layer or two of obfuscating. They literally failed to close one of the big loopholes that makes us one of the biggest “tax havens” just a few years ago…
Shell companies registered in Nevis Island, which doesn’t keep records of who owns which company after they set it up, so they say.
Invade that island, lock all those businesses, and watch the billionaires cry.
Well, or they just go something very similar in the us, just with a layer or two of obfuscating. They literally failed to close one of the big loopholes that makes us one of the biggest “tax havens” just a few years ago…