It is more likely that they will have to come to terms with the realisation that everything was done in line with the rules, which were perhaps used extremely creatively, but did not violate them.

They will also have to accept the fact that Switzerland, Romania or Malta, let alone the Cayman Islands, do not have the slightest intention of changing the rules, and nobody can force them to do so.

Those who do not have enough zeros on their accounts to be able to enter this parallel world of "self-reproducing money" must feel like zeros even more now that the Paradise Papers have been published.

Legalised minimisation of "tax expenses" has stopped being only a public finance or social problem long ago - it is a first-rate political problem. Even worse - it is a threat to democracy, concludes the commentary