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Pandora papers: Why are HNIs moving significant assets abroad? -Ajit Ranade

-National Herald

The Pandora Papers raise issues that need serious introspection. Even if the wealth has been salted away legally, does it reflect a flight of capital? Do HNIs feel their wealth is not secure in India?

What is different about the Pandora Papers from the earlier Panama Papers leaks, revealed by ICIJ five years ago? Unlike the Panama papers which were leaks from a single source, a law firm called Mossack Fonseca, the Pandora Papers are sourced from 14 different providers, whose identity has been concealed. It is a much more comprehensive picture of how the wealthy shift their wealth across tax jurisdictions, possibly to evade taxes or to have a system of “more efficient tax planning”. The distinction between evasion and planning quite thin.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) leaks (the Pandora Papers is the seventh major one, the earlier ones being Panama and Paradise) put the spotlight on the role of tax havens and the service they pro-vide to the global wealthy elite to escape taxation and scrutiny in their home country.

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