It’s the biggest leak of documents the story about tax evasion. 106 international media, including Le Monde French side, worked on the case dubbed “Panama Papers”. Journalists were able to consult over eleven million documents from a Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, “specialist domiciliation of offshore companies” , as explained Le Monde. “These data shows that heads of state, billionaires, big bosses, sports figures, culture, economics resort with the help of some banks, corporations fixtures to to hide their assets. “
All last week, the consortium of journalists has revealed the existence of hundreds of foreign accounts, including related politicians or celebrities, and a whole system of tax evasion and running well offshore companies. At the heart of the scandal, tax havens, states where foreigners invest their money not to be taxed in their country of origin, attracted more favorable tax systems and a certain discretion, as is the case in Panama .
But this is precisely what a tax haven? It has to do with palm trees and islands? Why do people hide their money abroad? So many questions which agitate our little journalists of the day, who have heard the now famous “Panama papers” without any understanding. At the microphone of France junior Info, three schoolgirls pose their questions to Lucie Watrinet responsible for advocacy CCFD-Terre Solidaire and coordinator of the Tax Havens and Judicial platform.
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