Nurses don’t have offshore accounts — that’s reserved for the wealthy

Parasitic behaviour at the top of the wealth chain, while those in the middle or the bottom struggle to earn a decent living, is one of the worst things wrong with the world, writes Fergus Finlay
Nurses don’t have offshore accounts — that’s reserved for the wealthy

The richer you are, it seems, the greedier you are. The more money you have, the more lengths you’ll go to to hide it from the tax man.

Maybe there’s nothing surprising in that — maybe it’s something we’ve always known. But when it’s exposed in its nakedness, it’s still deeply shocking. World leaders for years have been telling us about the need to for tax transparency — what David Cameron referred to as the need “to shine a spotlight on who owns what and where the money is really flowing.” And then we start to discover the world leaders who are stashing their money in hidden bank accounts.

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