"It's not about evasion but about avoiding an extra, gratuitous layer of tax," says John Collis of Conyers Dill & Pearman, a Bermuda law firm.Such structures offer legal neutrality too.
Early on, Obama spoke about tax evasion at length, about how he wanted to claw back almost $200 billion in lost revenue.
Hughes's evasions about his sexuality?
Evasions about what we do know increase doubts about what we don't.
If politics is just tactics, then evasions about the recent past serve the cause of the Republican Party.
Perhaps because it involves confronting an antisemitic tradition going back to the Dreyfus affair (and later parallel evasions about Algeria).
His changing positions, his evasions about them, his misrepresentations — they all, ultimately, came off as a challenge: I think you're too stupid not to fall for this.
Back when he coached the United States in the early 1990s, his constant evasions about rosters and tactics led one reporter to quip, "Milutinovic speaks five languages fluidly, but doesn't answer tough questions completely in any of them".
As chairman of the Senate's foreign-relations committee, Joe Biden, now vice-president, walked out last year from a dinner given by Mr Karzai, fuming at his host's evasions about opium-fuelled corruption.
We got to know one another in a steamy Au Bon Pain on the building's ground floor, each offering tortured evasions about what we do — "I consult," "I freelance," "I'm an entrepreneur".
