Panama Papers

A Barcelona court on July 6 sentenced soccer star Lionel Messi and his father to 21 months in prison for tax fraud--but they won’t actually serve time.

The thousands of Russian names on a list of offshore companies suggests President Vladimir Putin’s effort to crack down on such entities is ineffective, experts say, and highlights how keeping wealth abroad remains one of the few ways to keep it safe from corrupt local officials.

Actress Emma Watson has denied that she has participated in any form of tax evasion after she was named among the 200,000 accounts in the Panama Papers database.

People are now able to search for their names in the Panama Papers through a database provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on May 9.

President Obama called on Congress May 6 to fully close loopholes that allow tax evasion, a day after his administration announced a set of new financial regulations.

The whistleblower behind the Mossack Fonseca data leak has spoken out for the first time on May 6 since the Panama Papers were released last month.

BERLIN— A German newspaper that obtained leaked files from a Panamanian law firm detailing offshore financial dealings published Friday what it said is a manifesto from its anonymous source, who described having been moved to act by “the scale of the...

After the release of the Panama Papers, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa boasted that unlike other nations, his country had not been involved with Mossack Fonseca, but it’s not all true.

In the wake of the Panama Papers revelations, the distinction between tax planning, tax avoidance, and tax evasion seems to have been lost between the lines.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, asked to speak to journalists who participated in the Panama Papers project. Bharara is already investigating some of the Americans mentioned in the Panama Papers, one of them is president of New York Global Group, Benjamin Wey.

Many tax policy experts have been searching for years for ways to close the tax gap. Believe it or not, over the course of the coming decades, this dream may blossom into reality.