The Crown Dependencies need to understand the 21st century - and move into it very soon
Monday, March 4th, 2019The Guernsey Press is quoting a former adviser to David Cameron to suggest that our parliament has no right to impose legislation on the Crown
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Jersey's illegal Senators and Deputies
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019A scandal in Jersey has come to my attention. For once this is not about tax. It has instead arisen out of Jersey’s May 2018
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There is a solution to the EU mess. The price is two party leaders and at least one of their parties
Thursday, January 17th, 2019As I have already pointed out this morning, when we voted to leave the EU that is what we did. No conditions or red lines
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Jersey gets on another tax haven blacklist
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019This comes from the Channels Islands Bailiwick Express: Jersey has been dubbed a blacklisted “tax haven” alongside 20 other jurisdictions by the Netherlands, as the
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A note to Jeremy Hunt: being a tax haven is not necessarily a very good thing
Sunday, December 30th, 2018Jeremey Hunt is suggesting the UK’s future after Brexit should be modelled on the tax haven of Singapore. There are some especially odd things about this
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Jersey is acting with blind faith and misplaced hope when it comes to the EU's tax haven blacklist requirements
Friday, November 9th, 2018A report in the Jersey Evening Post today reveals that Jersey ministers have no idea as to whether their proposed law on economic substance will
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Jersey's guidance on the EU's economic substance test spectacularly misses the point
Thursday, November 8th, 2018I have been asked to comment on the new guidance Jersey has published for companies that are resident in the island and which may be impacted
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Jersey has already withdrawn it’s fundamentally flawed economic substance legislation
Monday, November 5th, 2018A week ago I wrote about why Jersey’s planned legislation that was intended, in their opinion, to meet the requirements of the EU’s economic substance
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It looks like Jersey is failing an EU imposed tax test, yet again
Monday, October 29th, 2018As I outlined last December, the European Union’s decision to put Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man on what was, in effect, their tax
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