TJN's response to Jersey is "if you'd like to debate we're happy to do so at anytime, but you won't"
Thursday, June 5th, 2014I mentioned a study that Jersey were promoting on this blog more than a week ago. It is being discussed in the City of London
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Jersey issues bonds to pay for social housing a decade after I suggested the idea
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014It must be a least a decade ago that Deputy Geoff Southern of Jersey and I both recommended that Jersey raise money to invest in
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When it comes to corporation tax Northern Ireland is walking into a disaster all of its own making
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014Debate on whether or not Northern Ireland (and Scotland) should have control of their corporation tax rates is back on the agenda. I will be
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Jersey's getting tetchy
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014I received this mail yesterday. Well, to be precise, it was forwarded to me. Either way it turned up in my in box: A CSFI
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We always said Swiss banking was corrupt: now we know it's true
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014Over many years I, and colleagues in the Tax Justice Network and elsewhere, said that offshore banking, and Swiss banking in particular, involved corruption. Now, as the
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Even the FT thinks the UK may be turning into a tax haven
Thursday, May 8th, 2014It has been a fairly persistent theme on this blog for some time that George Osborne has been turning the UK into a tax haven.
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It's easier to get data on UK companies with bank accounts in Cayman than Stockport
Monday, April 21st, 2014There’s a perverse consequence of the new rules on beneficial ownership of companies announced today. Because the government has not adopted my recommendation that all
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The EU has, at long last, got full tax information exchange and that's bad news for the UK's tax havens
Friday, March 21st, 2014I have been campaigning on issues relating to the European Union Savings Tax Directive since 2005, at least. It was, therefore, pleasing to note that Bloomberg
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Automatic information exchange with the Crown Dependencies is all very good but what if HMRC is too short staffed to use the data?
Monday, March 17th, 2014The government has published new regulations this morning called The International Tax Compliance (Crown Dependencies and Gibraltar) Regulations 2014. These regulations bring into affect the FATCA style
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