Latest from Frédéric Zalac
Irving Oil had $250-million profit when it won tax break from city and province
Irving Oil raked in a quarter of a billion dollars in profits in the same year it persuaded Saint John city council and the New Brunswick government to hand it a 25-year tax break, leaked documents show.
Irving's offshore split was a race against time — and taxes
As New Brunswick's Irving family raced to break up their multibillion-dollar corporate empire more than a decade ago, three brothers agreed on at least one common goal: they needed to keep their tax bills down.
How Irving's Bermuda insurance company piled up millions in offshore tax-free profits
New Brunswick’s billionaire Irving family created an offshore insurance company that allowed them to move millions of dollars in profits out of Canada and into the tax haven of Bermuda, according to leaked documents reviewed by CBC News and Radio-Canada.
CBC Investigates
Uber deliberately dodged authorities, ignored rules in early years, leaked documents show
A leak of more than 80,000 internal emails from Uber lays bare the ride-hailing company's law-skirting methods for insinuating itself into new markets and courting powerful figures to try to get its way.
CBC Investigates
Russian billionaire is behind mansion that housed Harry and Meghan, leaked files show
For two years, it's been an international mystery: Who really owns the $18-million Vancouver Island mansion where Prince Harry and Meghan wintered in 2020? Canada's lack of transparent land records means it's not easy to find out, but the Pandora Papers led CBC to the answer.
PANDORA PAPERS
Leaked files expose Jacques Villeneuve's multimillion-dollar tax dodges
Former race car champion Jacques Villeneuve has had offshore accounts that have allowed him to veer around tax authorities since the early days of his career, files from the Pandora Papers leak show.
The Fifth Estate
Wealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore 'sham'
In 2010, Canada Revenue Agency auditors unearthed a scheme they called a “sham” that ultra-rich Canadians were using to dodge taxes. But previously unreported court records obtained by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquête show it didn't stop then. Some taxpayers continued to exploit the tax dodge for several years without officials realizing.
CRA has found 35 cases of tax dodging in the Panama Papers leak, 5 years later
Five years after one of the world's biggest leaks of financial records exposed the tax-haven dealings of politicians, athletes, celebrities and mobsters, the Canada Revenue Agency has found missing money in 35 of the hundreds of Canadian cases it has analyzed.
CBC Investigates
Top-secret records show New Brunswick, Alberta companies received millions in suspicious transfers
Top-secret records uncovered in a 16-month-long investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, BuzzFeed News and partners show two shadowy companies, one registered in New Brunswick and one in Alberta, received millions in suspicious money transfers between 2013 and 2018.
The Fifth Estate
B.C. billionaire brothers' use of KPMG offshore tax scheme exposed in emails
Numerous internal emails filed in court this summer reveal involvement of Caleb and Tom Chan in a KPMG offshore scheme so secret, neither Canadian tax collectors nor even their spouses were ever supposed to find out.