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Tax havens for the super wealthy may be evasive, but not always illegal

Some places to easily hide wealth don’t conjure up images of paradise.

The words tax haven get thrown around a lot. And you see some of the usual suspects pop up in the Paradise Papers — the Cayman Islands, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands. But it doesn’t have to be paradise to be a good place to stash earnings you don’t want to pay taxes on at home. Some of the U.S. states may surprise you.

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