The finance industry wants to ruin Jersey
Monday, October 18th, 2010I am amused by an article in the Jersey Evening Post today. It says: Thousands of jobs could go and hundreds of millions in tax
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Bon couarge
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Fran?ßois Aubert, a grand fromage (big cheese) in French politics and the chair of the OECD Global Forum (peer review group), also has something very
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Hot under the collar in Douglas
Saturday, October 9th, 2010I just noticed my traffic stats for yesterday. Seems like they’re all hot under the collar in the Isle of Man like they never get
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Get the facts right in the Isle of Man
Friday, October 8th, 2010I have just been interviewed by the Isle of Man Press because of the furore I have caused in the Isle of Man with stories
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Free-riding from the Isle of Man
Thursday, October 7th, 2010It seems I ruffled a few feathers yesterday with my comments on the Isle of Man’s new GDP calculations. I was accused of being disingenuous
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Islands under attack
Monday, October 4th, 2010Not my title: it’s adapted from one in the Guernsey Press and Star this afternoon. As they say: EUROPE is running out of patience with
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Jersey – heading for failure
Thursday, September 30th, 2010The problems for the Jersey economy just grow and grow — or rather shrink and shrink. Data on Jersey’s income for 2009 has just been
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Asserting the right to tax corporations – like Wolseley
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010I am at the conference of the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development in Bergen for the next couple of days. I’ll be
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Time to change the corporate residency laws
Monday, September 27th, 2010Wolseley, the UK quoted builders merchant, is to move its place of incorporation to Jersey and tax residence to Switzerland according to the BBC this
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