Sharan Burrow

Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.

Welsh Activist

Noam Chomsky

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

American Activist

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Indonesian Economist

Gilbert Parker

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Canadian Politician

Victor Ponta

All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

Romanian Politician

George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

British Author

George C. Marshall

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

American Soldier

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

American Actor

Malcolm Muggeridge

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

British Journalist

Thomas Merton

American Author

Evasion often implies a deliberate action of avoiding something one should face.

Negative Connotation

In different contexts, 'evasion' can refer to avoidance of physical, emotional, or intellectual things.

Context Matters

Sometimes evasion is sensible, such as when avoiding hazards or unwelcome situations.

Not Always Negative

Tax evasion is a specific legal term and a serious crime, not just any form of avoidance.

Legal Specificity

Tax evasion carries a moral burden, as it is seen as dishonesty towards society.

Moral Weight

'Evasion' in the military is strategic, aiming to escape from or avoid the enemy.

Tactical Use

Military evasion is a crucial survival skill, not merely avoiding confrontation.

Survival Skill

Military evasion requires precise tactics and quick thinking to be effective.

Precision Required

 you're a set of skills to be maximized. And the evil of the meritocracy is that people who've achieved a little more than others are actually worth a little more than others. And so the wages of sin are sin. And my sins were the sins of omission-- not reaching out, failing to show up for my friends, evasion, avoiding conflict.

The lies our culture...

 The politeama is the city. It's all of us together. And I've always believed that the act of architecture, even a private house, when somebody else will see it, is a political act, because it will be visible to others. And we live in a world which is connecting us more and more. So again, the evasion of that sphere,

Daniel Libeskind's 17...

 obligation freely and i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion that i will well and faithfully discharge that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of

Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...

 who's spoken to our undercover investigator and provided suggestions. It's not just about a particular senior politician who's been caught up in a scandal. This is about how a system works, that entrenches corruption, tax evasion, poverty and instability.

The Panama Papers...

 like tax evasion. From 1986 on, they could confiscate wealth simply by demonstrating that concealment had occurred, which had a positive effect on prosecuting major criminal operations, like drug traffickers. However, a legal shift has raised concerns

How does money...

 to tackle these problems, whether it was lack of transparency and accountability in governance, or whether it was a clientelistic state offering favors to the powerful -- tax avoidance abetted and aided by a global tax evasion system,

George Papandreou:...

 the factory of the world to becoming the clean tech laboratory of the world now this is not radical innovation like Silicon Valley this is what I like to call tweak evasion because of tweak evasion though China in 20 years you're

Tackling pollution one...

 and in the context, for example, of tax evasion, of tax fraud, have bad media coverage. They lose net new money in the future and therefore make lower profits. That's a very powerful reputational force. Benefits and costs.

What really motivates...

 Now these things are an essential part of the money laundering parade, and if you want to do something about illegal tax evasion and transnational organized crime, money laundering, you have to get rid of them.

Misha Glenny investigates...

 that the fossil fuel industry causes but isn't asked to pay for, the value of these subsidies actually reaches a staggering seven percent of annual global GDP. Now consider tax evasion.