This Christmas the Jersey way is meeting its match
Sunday, December 24th, 2017The Guardian has reported that: The UK will never be granted a free trade agreement with the European Union if it seeks to take advantage
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Jersey's days as a tax haven are very definitely numbered
Monday, December 18th, 2017The EU’s new tax haven black list published last week, had, as I’ve noted before, an interesting ‘ grey list’ attached to it. Included in the
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Jersey's in denial: it's future as a tax haven is in doubt whatever its Chief Minister says
Friday, December 8th, 2017The Jersey Evening Post, the ever reliable supporter of the Jersey government, reported yesterday that: After months of discussion, EU finance ministers agreed this week
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The EU's message to tax havens has one real target - and that's the UK
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017Do you remember what Philip Hammond once had to say about the UK post Brexit? In January this year he went to Germany to declare
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The EU tax haven list is very bad news for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017I have, for more than a decade, had an interesting relationship with the British Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. From
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The writing is on the wall for five British tax havens, but the EU blacklist is still a disappointment
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017The EU has published it’s tax haven list. This is it with reasons given: I groaned when reading that. Of all the places listed Panama
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The November Tax Justice Network Taxcast
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017In the November 2017 Tax Justice Network Taxcast: the latest offshore scandal, the Paradise Papers with one of the journalists who got the scoop, Pulitzer
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Non-cooperative tax regimes
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017There’s always been much debate about what a tax haven might be. It’s one reason why I defined the term secrecy jurisdiction*. But secrecy is
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Philip Hammond is just too soft on empty properties
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017Philip Hammond announced that English councils may charge a 100% premium on council tax on empty property yesterday. The aim is to force the properties
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