Paradise Papers: Apple's secret tax bolthole revealed
Found on BBC News on Monday, 06 November 2017
The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
One email sent between senior partners at Appleby says: "For those of you who are not aware, Apple [officials] are extremely sensitive concerning publicity. They also expect the work that is being done for them only to be discussed amongst personnel who need to know."
The papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.
Remember the Panama Papers? Remember how politicians promised to do something about all these tax evasions? Remember the big changes that followed these announcements? No? Nobody else remembers them either because they never happened.