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12 April 2016 / Richard Curtis
Issue: 4545 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Where will the Panama papers trail lead ?

KEY POINTS

  • Leaked documents from a Panamanian offshore provider.
  • Will Cameron’s tax return disclosure be welcomed by all?
  • Public confusion over tax planning avoidance and evasion.
  • Will this lead to wider discussion and better knowledge?

The reply in the words of a 1930s advertising slogan used to be ‘Get a hat’. Since I became more ahem folliclly challenged the subject of hats has become more important to me. I do have a range: from woolly to fedora but who knew that the one I should have been wearing all this time was the Panama. Perhaps the Panama hat will become the iconic (or should that be ironic?) headwear of choice in 2016. That’s because there is only one tax story this week: the ‘Panama papers’ – the leak of 11...

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