The Knife: A brief overview of offshore accounts, tax evasion

Much of the media coverage of the “Paradise Papers” describes offshore service providers as legal institutions that may facilitate tax evasion and money laundering, among other potential crimes. While this may be true, the articles we examined in our analysis, “7 ways to imply guilt in the ‘Paradise Papers’ coverage,” lack data to support these implications, and they don’t say what steps governments have taken to address such issues. We provide you with some data on the subject to fill in the gaps.