[sparkling]

The missing transparancy disclaimer: "The Cumex files" is headed by "Correctiv", a german based "journalist network" which receives large parts of its funding by german goverment organizations and/or organizations which have close gov connections. But: the german goverment itself was aware of this scheme since at least 2002.

Also: this is a drop in the ocean compared to EU-internal tax loop holes and tax havens such as Luxembourg.

[morsch]

A disclaimer implies there is something to disclaim, such as a financial conflict of interest - what reason for a disclaimer are you imagining?

Besides, they literally have a link to a page with detailed financial information, including every organization that gave them more than 1000 EUR to them.

Most of their funding in 2017 came from private parties not affiliated with any government. I can't find any numbers for 2018, which is a shame.

https://correctiv.org/en/about-us/

[buboard]

The article may for example be intentionally be silent on inefficiency/misbehavior of tax authorities.

[matt4077]

Your conspiracy seems rather incompetent if they chose to use their money to silence their critics on some aspects, considering they financed that very investigation in the first place.

[Xylakant]

The list of donors can be found here, broken down by year: https://correctiv.org/ueber-uns/ This years biggest sponsor is by far the Omidyar Network Foundation (eBay Founder) with 640.051,24 Euro, followed by the Brost Foundation and Schöpflin Foundation with about 200.000 EUR each. The Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung gives 20.390 Euro. Last years breakdown looks slightly different, but private foundations cover the lions share of the costs.

[zoobab]

"EU-internal tax loop holes" such as the well known tax reductions on patent/copyright/design/etc royalties, which are still 0% in the Netherlands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich