Jersey, subsidising tax abuse via PWC
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012Jersey is paying a heavy price for taking on the UK on the issue of the VAT abuse that was operated by companies such as
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Jersey would be welcome at the Tax Justice Network conference next year
Sunday, July 8th, 2012Mike Dun from Jersey joined the Tax Justice Network at its conference in Essex last week and made this video. Skip the first twenty seconds or
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Trust Jersey to misrepresent trusts
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012The Guardian has begun a mini-series on the Channel Islands today. As it notes in the second part of the series: [T]he most lucrative corner
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Jersey stamps its foot in defence of tax abuse
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012The Guardian reports this morning that Sir Philip Bailhache, the foreign minister, former Bailiff and former senior judge of Jersey, thinks it’s time for Jersey to declare independence form the UK. As they
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What would Jersey do if all its best paid employees did a K2 scheme?
Thursday, June 21st, 2012Jersey is at the heart of the latest tax avoidance scandals in the UK, almost univitably. Of course they just shrug it off and say it’s
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They're digging mines in Jersey .... or are they?
Thursday, June 21st, 2012I can’t resist noting the following from the Jersey Evening Press this week (this bit not on line): The Economic Development Minister said (speaking to 800 people
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Passport tax: now the Times supports the case for it
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012I have long argued for what I call a ‘passport tax’. Yesterday the Times said in its editorial on tax avoidance that the government has to ask: is it
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Tax Haven UK: Cameron's real agenda
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012I had the following article posted on Comment is Free a few minutes ago: David Cameron is rolling out the red carpet — for tax avoiders.
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Tax avoiders have nothing to fear from George Osborne
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012I have the following blog over at the New Statesman this morning: “I regard tax evasion and indeed aggressive tax avoidance as morally repugnant.” So said George
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