They included Philip de Figueiredo, partner at an accounting firm based in the Channel Islands, who was jailed for two years for running a massive tax evasion scheme.
Despite massive draft evasion and desertion, within a year almost three-quarters of a million men were under arms, the citizen-soldiers merged with line-army troops in new units called demibrigades.
As US senators move towards confirming Loretta Lynch as the new attorney general, the big question is what she will do about HSBC, which is embroiled in a massive tax evasion scandal.
Mossack Fonseca acted for the Swiss and Channel Islands-based accounting firm Strachans, whose partner Philip de Figueiredo was jailed in Australia for two years for his role in a massive tax evasion scheme uncovered by Project Wickenby.
He also talks of stamping out massive tax evasion and says that the "unfair" flat tax is to be replaced by a system of tiered rates.In this section Cold climate Educating Cécile Between bail-outs Getting it together A resurgent right Dog eats dog The hardworking Mr Hollande Back to school Correction: Merkel ReprintsSome election promises will be hard to fulfil.
Italy is beset by profound problems: a very low rate of economic growth, massive tax evasion, organised crime, and the chronic underdevelopment of the south of the country, to name just a few.
The best-known rat right now is Bradley C. Birkenfeld, who blew the whistle on massive tax evasion involving offshore accounts held by U.S. citizens at Swiss bank UBS.
Keep in mind that Honduras already suffers from massive tax evasion on the part of its citizens and businesses.
FairTax opponents state that compliance decreases when taxes are not automatically withheld from citizens, and that massive tax evasion could result by collecting at just one point in the economic system.
A number of newspaper exposes in the U.S. have highlighted how Google and Facebook engage in massive tax evasion in the U.S. by shifting global profits and intellectual property assets to low-tax countries like Ireland, then claiming minimal taxable profits in the United States and many other countries.
