His family is murdered by Nazis but he escapes to the UK. He sets up offshore funds in the event something like the holocaust happens again, but the tax authorities go after him.
This is one of many reasons for people to set up offshore accounts that have nothing to do with illegal activities.
How many people like this has this person hurt?
Where does this belief in the infallibility of the tax man come from?
Pay your taxes and you can keep them as far away from any shore as you like.
And I don't really see why you feel the need to invoke the Holocaust in this manner? You're just using it as a sympathetic reason to justify tax evasion. Could I also rob some banks with that justification?
Could be for an holocaust fund, Bezos secret birthday party fund or for your new 4k TV it's all the same, pay your taxes, then do whatever you want with your money. It really isn't that complex.
You seem to be conflating people keeping money in offshore accounts with cheating on taxes. Some people who have offshore accounts probably cheat. Other people are not cheating. The referenced person was not cheating, and, not that he needed it, he had a very good reason for having the offshore accounts.
Hacking in and publicizing peoples offshore account information hurts both groups. It's irresponsible. It hurts people who pay their taxes and are not doing anything wrong. If a government went in and, without any due process, started convicting people just because they had an offshore account, we would not be praising that government.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/holocaust-surviv...
His family is murdered by Nazis but he escapes to the UK. He sets up offshore funds in the event something like the holocaust happens again, but the tax authorities go after him.
This is one of many reasons for people to set up offshore accounts that have nothing to do with illegal activities.
How many people like this has this person hurt?
Where does this belief in the infallibility of the tax man come from?