If the Big 4 can quit Russia they can quit Cayman, the BVI, Jersey, the Isle of Man, Bermuda and others too
Monday, March 7th, 2022The FT has reported this morning that: PwC and KPMG have severed ties with their businesses in Russia and Belarus, becoming the first Big Four
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Jersey fights back - but the reality is that their government has no plan for the end of its finance sector
Sunday, July 4th, 2021A week ago I published here the weekend essay I had written for the Jersey Evening Post, published by them on June 26. I made
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The people of Jersey have paid a heavy price to support the tax haven that has been imposed on them
Monday, June 28th, 2021I noted this in the Jersey Evening Post yesterday in response to my weekend essay on that Island’s economic future: THE scale of the shift
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Jersey has a future, but not in finance
Sunday, June 27th, 2021A couple of weeks ago I was asked by Andy Sibcy, the editor of the Jersey Evening Post, if I might write an extended east
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The game is up for tax havens: they should be shedding their tears for the end of their ill gotten gains in private
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021As the FT has reported: Bermuda’s political and business elite is responding to the G7 push for a minimum corporate income tax as it would
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The G7 deal did not set a target corporation tax rate for the world - but the right wing is claiming it did
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021The G7 tax deal, signed at the weekend, had the aim of ending the ‘race to the bottom’ in corporation tax rates, which has seen
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The challenge to Jersey and Guernsey of a new international tax settlement
Monday, June 7th, 2021It has been a morning of making many media comments, including one to ITV in the Channel Islands who have reported this: A leading tax
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Why isn’t the government supporting a global minimum corporation tax rate?
Monday, May 24th, 2021The Daily Record has noted, along with a number of other papers, that: Labour is to stage a Commons vote to try and force the
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Gunboats, Tories and Jersey
Thursday, May 6th, 2021The news is making much of the government’s decision to send gunboats to Jersey today to protect the island, which is a British Crown Dependency,
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