A picture of Jersey: the ultimate screwed up economy
Friday, October 7th, 2016This chart comes from the latest report on Jersey’s economic situation: 41.7% from financial services. 14.2% from rents. However you look at it that’s the
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Jersey's black hole: still crazy after all these years
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016Back in 2007 I forecast that if Jersey continued with its tax haven policies it would have a black hole in its finances of £119
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Brexit means that the EU can rightfully turn on the UK's tax havens
Friday, September 16th, 2016The Guardian reported last night that: Eight British overseas territories and crown dependencies, including Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, could face EU
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Lady Green on offshore
Thursday, July 7th, 2016The Guardian reported yesterday (and I have to quote at length): The wife of retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has defended their use of companies based
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Questions for Sir Philip Green
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016Lord Myners used parliamentary privilege to raise questions on the finances of BHS and Sir Philip Green yesterday. According to the FT he said: There
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To engage or not; that is the question
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016It would seem I have touched a raw nerve for some regular commentators by suggesting that I welcome the IMF article, recently published, that appeared to
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The Anti-Corruption Summit - a post mortem
Friday, May 13th, 2016Yesterday’s Anti-Corruption Summit did not excite the world. It did not even excite readers of this blog: traffic yesterday was at about normal levels and
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The professional bodies say they deplore criminal corruption - but turn a blind eye to the real abuse their members facilitate
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016It turned out that my question about what the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales was doing about the Corruption Summit was timely. They
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Jersey puts itself in the spotlight, yet again
Friday, May 6th, 2016The Jersey Evening Post has run one of its regular articles where it gives particular prominence to a comment I have made about the Island.
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