Despite the Paradise Papers’ revelations, most British people prefer to focus on the perceived crimes of the poor. However, this relative lack of concern is consistent with research on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance. In moral terms, people seem rather ambivalent; less than half (48%) thought that legal tax avoidance was “usually or always wrong”. Though gestures have been made towards addressing widespread tax avoidance by the wealthy, very little has actually been achieved. The Paradise Papers have dragged the murky world of offshore finance into the spotlight.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 09:00 UTC