“The economic system is, basically, that the rich and the powerful exited long ago from the messy business of paying tax,” Harding told an audience of academics and research students. “They don’t pay tax anymore, and they haven’t paid tax for quite a long time. We pay tax, but they don’t pay tax. The burden of taxation has moved inexorably away from multinational companies and rich people to ordinary people.” - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/panama-the-hidden-trillions/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Panama%20Papers%20Cage%20Jackson%20Pushwagner&utm_content=NYR%20Panama%20Papers%20Cage%20Jackson%20Pushwagner+CID_d2d1c2b6fd1856868fd3d33d55423a62&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Panama%20The%20Hidden%20Trillions