Tax
Nov. 13, 2017
Paradise Papers, tax havens and disclosure
It will hardly be paradise to those whose names and details are being teased out of the morass. The leak contains a massive 13.4 million documents, mostly from a single offshore finance firm.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
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