How to beat corporate tax avoidance and hold global capital to account - the longer version
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012Numerous journalists have called me asking how we should tackle the whole issue of tax avoidance by multinational corporations who right now seem to be
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Oh be joyful - Osborne has found the path to our salvation - and it's called Jersey
Friday, October 12th, 2012I kid you not. This is what the Jersey Evening Post says this afternoon: Jersey has got a role to play in helping the UK
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If Jersey wants to lose the tax haven label why not try giving up being a tax haven?
Friday, October 12th, 2012I was most amused to read this in the Jersey Evening Post the other day: Two leading Westminster figures have urged Jersey to do more to fight off
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A few open questions for Jersey
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012I gather that the higher echelons of power were pleased by my commentary on their press release on FTACA yesterday – which by some oversight they forgot
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Jersey trumpets its cooperation on tax with the USA whilst refusing the most basic information exchange with the UK
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012Jersey issued a press release this morning saying: The Governments of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man are today, Tuesday 9 October 2012, simultaneously
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The Times realises tax avoidance costs vastly more than HMRC says it does. Why do ministers deny it?
Friday, October 5th, 2012The Times has said today: H M Revenue & Customs believes that personal tax avoidance costs the economy $4.5 billion a year. The exposure of the Liberty tax scheme suggests this
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Jersey: an oddity of the system
Friday, October 5th, 2012From the Times editorial today: It is an oddity of the system that Jersey, a Crown Dependency, not only serves as a tax haven but provides
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Do millionaires move because of tax? The evidence from the US is that they don't
Thursday, October 4th, 2012California is looking to increase its taxes on the richest in that state. And as a result all the usual mischief about the rich heading
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Jersey is really sinking - as I predicted in 2005
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012Jersey’s just published its latest figures on the state of its economy. The chart looks like this using constant 2003 prices: That’s four years of national economic decline in
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