Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology is a book by enterprise data architect and consultant Martyn Richard Jones.
The book treats offshore tax evasion not merely as a moral or political failure, but fundamentally as an engineering and data architecture problem.
Key Concepts from the Book:
- The Core Argument: In a world where multinational corporations can track real-time global supply chains, governments should have the technical capability to map hidden assets. The obstacle isn’t a lack of data, but rather that financial information sits in fragmented, disconnected silos across jurisdictions.
- The World Asset Register (WAR): Jones proposes a globally integrated data ecosystem designed to aggregate information from land registries, financial institutions, tax authorities, and corporate filings to expose hidden wealth and shell company structures.
- Modern Enterprise Data Tech Stack: Instead of relying on manual leaks (like the Panama Papers), the book advocates using modern data architecture—including data meshes, AI/ML analytics, graph processing, and entity-resolution models—to identify asset-hoarding patterns and illicit financial flows in real time.
- Systemic View: Rather than focusing solely on individual bad actors, Jones examines the structural mechanics of offshore finance, shell companies, private placement life insurance, and profit-shifting mechanisms.
About the Author:
Martyn Richard Jones is a long-time data architect, consultant, and writer who specializes in master data management, information supply chains, and enterprise data mesh systems.
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