Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore – The New York Times

Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore

A new book looks at the baroque — and sometimes absurd — world of offshore tax havens.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/avoiding-taxes-legally-offshore/

The collapse of Enron, with its web of offshore companies, got Paolo Woods talking with a photo editor. As big as the story was, the editor told him, he was hard pressed to figure out just how to illustrate something rooted in a thicket of secretive corporations that — on paper, at least — were based in tax havens. Nondescript post office boxes were not exactly the stuff of great images.