&gt; [Using offshore tax havens] may or not be legal, I&#x27;m pretty sure a lot of the people in the list are using for Tax Evasion.<p>Nope. The majority of the information contained in the Panama Papers does not pertain to any illegal activity[0] (tax <i>evasion</i> is illegal).<p>And even of the information that provides evidence of illegal activity, most of it is illegal for reasons that have nothing to do with taxation. Some of the information does point to transactions that were otherwise illegal (such as drug cartel money), but that is in the minority of the information leaked.<p>Using offshore tax havens isn&#x27;t illegal <i>in se</i>. And in fact, most uses of offshore tax havens aren&#x27;t going to be illegal, because if you&#x27;re going to do something illegal (tax evasion), why bother to use an offshore tax haven? The whole point of using an offshore tax haven is to to reduce tax liability <i>through legal means</i>[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Panama_Papers#Disclosures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Panama_Papers#Disclosures</a><p>[1] Not to be confused with the goal of using hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts to (e.g.) launder drug money or money obtained through bribery, which is illegal but has nothing to do with taxes.