10% of all the wealth on Earth is hidden in tax havens by billionaires and millionaires. In 2019, global GDP was $86.6 trillion, which means about $8.6trn is sitting in bank accounts right now not being used for the sole purpose of avoiding tax. Here's what that could pay for:

Just to grasp how much money that is, if you printed out that amount in one dollar bills, it would weigh 8.66m tonnes. To put that into perspective, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is the heaviest building on Earth at 4.1m tonnes.

If you printed out this money that was hidden away for the sole purpose of avoiding tax, it would be as heavy as two Palace of the Parliament's placed on top of each other and then some.

The average US worker earns $48,672 according to Bureau of Labor. Here's how long you'd have to work to earn each without spending a penny:

One million USD: 20.5 years
One billion USD: 20,545 years
One trillion USD: 2.05 million years
$8,659,883,000,000: 17.6 million years

Here's a more high res image for anyone struggling to read the words because of Twitter file compression: https://imgur.com/a/TkBZNqc 

Never ever forget the heroism of journalists like Daphne Caruana Galizia, who paid for exposing the Panama Papers with her life after she was murdered with a car bomb in Malta in reaction to her publishing the Papers: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist