Abstract- Gabriel Zucman’s book, La ricchezza nascosta delle nazioni. Indagine sui paradisi fiscali, is reviewed. Through a transparent methodology, Zucman estimated that the 8% of global financial assets of households is held offshore, that is 6,900 billion Euros in 2015. The implied tax evasion is estimated 170 billion Euros. Finally, it is proposed that tax heavens – and the related financial industry – represent one of the aspects of financial globalisation.
Keywords– Evasion, globalisation, financial, economic, richness.