{"id":4855,"date":"2017-11-06T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2017-11-06T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T02:28:14","slug":"trouble-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4855","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leak of some 13.4 million records, dubbed the <strong>Paradise Papers<\/strong>, lifts another\u00a0veil on the often murky ways in which the wealthy and portrait artists stash their money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4858 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Accountant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Accountant.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Accountant-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Accountant-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>(photo) Court Painter meets with CRA Agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This enormous new leak of tax-haven financial records \u2014 rivalling the Panama Papers in size and scope \u2014 is laying bare some of the financial secrets of the world&#8217;s elite, from the Queen to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s chief fundraiser to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s commerce secretary, along with more than 120 politicians across the globe and perhaps most shockingly : Court Painter the Great Dominion&#8217;s preeminent portraitist of the politicly pompous and celebrity has beens!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Tax-accountants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Tax-accountants.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Tax-accountants-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Tax-accountants-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>(photo) Court Painter &amp; His Accountant meet with CRA Agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Court Painter has gone on a rant denying any illegal offshore accounts financed through political and celebrity cash payments, received under the table for portrait commissions and subsequently stashed offshore!<br \/>\nIn addition to disclosures about heads of state and corporations, the <strong>Paradise <\/strong>files reveal details about the financial lives of the rich and famous which Court Painter includes himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-tax-accountant-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-tax-accountant-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-tax-accountant-2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-tax-accountant-2-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>(photo) Court Painter is presented with Off Shore Accounts evidence by CRA Agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While having an offshore account or company is often legal, the built-in anonymity of tax havens tends also to attract money launderers, drug and arms traffickers, tax evaders and others including Court Painter engaged in questionable conduct , the leaked records show.<br \/>\nThis expose reveals there is a small group of people who are not equally subject to the tax laws as the rest of society, and it&#8217;s done purposely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4857 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Destroying-Evidence-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Destroying-Evidence-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Destroying-Evidence-copy-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Destroying-Evidence-copy-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>(photo) Court Painter in a panic burns Offshore Accounts evidence in front of lurking CRA Agent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leak of some 13.4 million records, dubbed the Paradise Papers, lifts another\u00a0veil on the often murky ways in which the wealthy and portrait artists stash their money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. (photo) Court Painter meets with CRA Agent This enormous new leak of tax-haven financial records \u2014 rivalling the Panama Papers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trouble in Paradise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}