Don't shoot the messenger
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Some interesting feedback on yesterday’s Jersey story. One person thought I was being unfair about the JEP’s website until he looked at it. Then he
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Send a gunboat
Thursday, January 25th, 2007China has realised that tax evasion has a direct cost on ordinary people. The China Daily reported today that: Cutting taxes for low-income earners and
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Offshore hedging increases risk
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Interesting to note that the FT reports the following this morning: Man Group’s US brokerage has told a US court that a subsidiary of UBS,
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It's true - we are working on a Code of Conduct for tax
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Word has leaked that the Tax Justice Network is working on a draft Code of Conduct for Taxation. As Finance Director put it: The Tax
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Paranoid, or what?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007I found the following on the web pages of Mutual Trust: The tax authorities of the major industrial nations have become more sophisticated and their
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Jersey - beginning to sink
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007As readers of this blog will be aware, I take an interest in the economic and taxation affairs of Jersey. That’s partly because I advised
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Land tax
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007I’ve never been convinced that land taxation is the ultimate solution to the taxation problem, although I am aware of the Georgist view. But I
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Suppliers of corruption services
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007The Tax Justice Network talks about ‘the suppliers of corruption services’ quite often. These are the apparently respectable people who provide the means for people
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Accounting for tax
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007In the USA the Federal Accounting Standards Board has ruled that its publication FIN48 will apply to all accounts beginning after 15 December 2006. That’s
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