The PM has faced accusations of hypocrisy over his admission that he profited from an offshore fund because of his hard-hitting criticism of tax avoidance.
Here are some of his previous tough-talking statements:
February 2010 - "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
January 2012 - "With the large companies, that have the fancy corporate lawyers and the rest of it, I think we need a tougher approach.
"After years of abuse, people across the planet are rightly calling for more action and, most importantly, there is gathering political will to actually do something about it."
June 2013 - "Those who want to evade taxes have nowhere to hide."
October 2013 - "For too long a small minority have hidden their business dealings behind a complicated web of shell companies - and this cloak of secrecy has fuelled all manner of questionable practices and downright illegality.
"Not only is this hugely unfair to the millions of hard-working people in Britain who pay their tax, but it's also bad for business.
"So that's why we need to shine a spotlight on who owns what and where money is really flowing."
May 2014 - "I think we should be very clear - tax evasion is illegal, and for that you can be prosecuted, you can go to prison.
"These very aggressive tax avoidance schemes, they are wrong and we should really persuade people not to do them."
February 2015 - "No government has done more than this one to crackdown on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance."
April 2015 - Tory election manifesto: "Tackling tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance and tax planning is an important part of our long-term economic plan."
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