Emma Watson named in Panama Papers database

[GennGreymane]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...-a7023126.html

The Harry Potter actress’s name was found by The Spectator in a searchable database containing more details about the Panama Papers tax avoidance scandal.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published data on more than 200,000 entities on its website on Monday evening. The database contains information on companies, trusts and foundations and users can see networks involving the offshore companies.

Watson’s spokesperson confirmed the 26-year-old had set up an offshore company. However, the spokesperson said she does not receive any tax or monetary advantages whatsoever. Instead, the spokesperson said she uses it for privacy purposes.

“Emma (like many high profile individuals) set up an offshore company for the sole purpose of protecting her anonymity and safety,” her spokesperson said in a statement.

“UK companies are required to publicly publish details of their shareholders and therefore do not give her the necessary anonymity required to protect her personal safety, which has been jeopardised in the past owing to such information being publicly available.

“Offshore companies do not publish these shareholder details. Emma receives absolutely no tax or monetary advantages from this offshore company whatsoever – only privacy.”

Setting up an offshore company is not by itself illegal or evidence of illegal conduct. The Panama Papers were taken from law firm Mossack Fonseca, which maintains it observed rules requiring it to identify its clients.

A number of past and present world leaders were named in the first leak as having offshore holdings. The database is the largest ever trove of data about offshore companies to be made publicly available.

The database does not include anything that could compromise the privacy of individuals named such as records of bank accounts or email exchanges.

[Melkandor]

Not surprising, she's more loaded than 99.99% of users on this forums.

[Natureseer]

great thread. insert discussion here.

[Melkandor]

Also inb4 someone complains about how your OP only quotes the news article

[Rothg]

This thread is going places.











- Actual reply- I'm a bit ignorant as to how taxes work in a situation like this. Is there any way to prove she is not gaining a monetary advantage by having an offshore account? I know that if I suddenly came into a large sum of money, that is exactly what I would do with it.

[PACOX]

Panama Papers: The White Knight Rises

[Tennis]

What's to great about one woman being in these papers? Lots of villains are named.

[Kronik85]

great thread. insert discussion here.

Hang on, I got dis!

Hah evil third wave feminist bitch isn't paying her taxes! She should be shot!

Now the next forum user is meant to post about how it's perfectly reasonable for celebrities to create offshore accounts to manage their funds and there is absolutely nothing untoward about the situation.

Then we circle jerk for about 20 different pages, users continuously jump in to reassert what was said on the first page and then we eventually get bored and forget the thread.

Job done.

[Deleted]

But why does Emma Watson matter? Her acting career is mediocre post-potter and she doesn't come off as an important figure.

[Mister Cheese]

Rich person uses off shore accounts! News at 11!

[angrys13]

But why does Emma Watson matter? Her acting career is mediocre post-potter and she doesn't come off as an important figure.

She has an acting career post-potter?

[Independent voter]

There's got to be a joke in this somewhere...

[scrappybristol]

She has an acting career post-potter?

barely.

more indie films than blockbusters.

[Gheld]

On the pecking order of fish to fry, I imagine a Hollywood celebrity would be somewhere near the bottom.

Give me the real dirt. Billionaires, politicians.

[dacoolist]

Lol, emma watson has about 1/1000 capital vs. the 10,000 richest people on earth. While the rest of us bottom feeders making less than 500,000$ a year - She's still a drop in the bucket to real Billionairs, but yet this post was made so..

[JestersShadow]

Not surprising, she's more loaded than 99.99% of users on this forums.

You misspelled 100%

[Pwellzor]

You misspelled 100%

Wrong, I am Emma Watson.

[Anastacy]

Also inb4 someone complains about how your OP only quotes the news article

Yet OP questions other people who make similar type posts (ie. basically copying an article, offering no real insight)...

Pot and Kettle really need to catch up sometime; they got a lot in common.

[analmoose]

But why does Emma Watson matter? Her acting career is mediocre post-potter and she doesn't come off as an important figure.

She's sexy AF, and that's all that matters

[Gheld]

Yet OP questions other people who make similar type posts (ie. basically copying an article, offering no real insight)...

Pot and Kettle really need to catch up sometime; they got a lot in common.

Like the fact that neither of them have been black since iron cookware stopped being a common thing?