Equal Times: The Panama Papers’ impact in the United States: The calm before the storm?

“A very small number of states are notorious for allowing pretty much anybody to start a company in the state without requiring even the most basic information,” says Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy with Citizens for Tax Justice, to the New York-based online news publication International Business Times. “There are a few states that effectively make the U.S. a privacy haven in exactly the same way that Panama is being described here.”