Will the US beat the tax havens?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The Bahama Journal has reported: The Bahamas and other offshore financial centers like it in the region may be able to breathe a little easier
Read the full article…
TJN submits evidence to US Senate
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007The Tax Justice Network has submitted to the US Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax havens. Jersey and Guernsey both submitted evidence to that hearing
Read the full article…
I do care about Jersey
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007It’s been said I don’t care about Jersey. I do, but not in the way some do.
Jersey's still got no clue how to close its tax gap
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007Jersey has a tax gap of, give or take, £95 million as a result of it moving to Zero / 10 taxation of companies. There
Read the full article…
Are tax havens dead?
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Accountancy Age has a story this week with the headline ‘Tax Havens Will Cease to Exist’. I wish Nicholas Neveling was right in reporting this,
Read the full article…
The Tax Amnesty - Last Day
Friday, June 22nd, 2007It’s the day when you tell the Revenue you owe tax under their ‘amnesty’, or face the consequences. As the BBC has noted, early this
Read the full article…
Jersey has not changed its spots
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007I’m off to Oslo tomorrow. I’m giving a talk on Thursday on Tax Havens and Transparency and what is happening on this right now. I
Read the full article…
Brown’s Decade: Was it taxing?
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Gordon Brown’s record of holding office as the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer for a decade is an extraordinary political achievement. In taxation terms such
Read the full article…
Tax havens stink
Monday, June 11th, 2007When the Economist ran a special feature on tax havens earlier this year they said: Today’s successful tax havens thrive not because of crockery, but
Read the full article…