When ordinary citizens are paying taxes for everything. Some have managed to take money from the country and keep it for themselves . The wealth of the land is stored while the people are burdened.it has not helped them or the governments who facilitated this.

Truth of the matter is that it is unfair that we pay taxes and these mega-rich don't ... it is annoying how well protected these tax scofflaws are.

The article says, "A whistleblower, a computer expert working for HSBC in Geneva, stole and leaked documents containing details of more than 100,000 clients..." I don't think its anyone's business what someone else does with their money. Its capitalism vs. communism, and communism has many more evils... America's new tax requirements are typical of socialist agenda. This article acts like the people involved are all tax dodgers...again its nobody's business how much money someone has or what they do with it. This mentality is part of a corrupt system where government becomes everyones big brother and you have disclose everything.

Can anyone muster the courage to do objective reporting on the Saudis and other oil-rich countries and their financial shenanigans? Let's have some 'balanced' investigative reporting for a change, ok?

They were hiding income so as to avoid the taxes they owed on it to the US government. The information leaked by the whistleblower was given to the US government in 2010 but nothing was done with it. I wonder if was because many of those tax evaders were also contributors to many of the people in the US Congress.

the shareholders of the private Central Banks. who charge interest to print the money (a violation of Torah in Israel). Their profit is the interest on the debt, and they do not pay any taxes on the money they receive, which is trillions of dollars. This is why you see every major nation in the world insolvent. The whole financial system is criminal.