Another hole for the Jersey budget
Monday, August 10th, 2009EU residents bring in £9m tax ¬ª Business ¬ª This Is Jersey. European Union residents with savings in Jersey contributed nearly £9 million to the
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Tax Justice Network: Luxembourg NGO made to withdraw offshore study
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009A Luxembourg non-governmental organisation, the Cercle de Coop?©ration, has been forced to withdraw a study explaining how their country is a secrecy jurisdiction, and how
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Just how daft can the Institute of Directors be?
Thursday, July 30th, 2009The UK’s Institute of Directors (basically a club for those already rich who aspire to be richer, preferably, it often seems, at the expense of
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Jersey – I hate to say it, but I told you so
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Sorry to brag — but I’ve just read the Jersey Business Plan for 2010. And this is where it now forecasts its finance will be
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Tax Information Exchange Agreements really do not deliver
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009I hope people have noted I’m not a great fan of Tax Information Exchange Agreements. The basic reason is that they are virtually impossible to
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Jersey creates Foundations – so it can compete at the very lowest level
Monday, July 27th, 2009The Jersey Evening Post reports: Jersey’s finance industry has a new international product to sell. The Jersey Foundations Law was approved last week by the
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From Cayman to Jersey – but the questions remain the same
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Having just had an article in the Cayman Financial Review I now find myself in an article in Business Life — a Jersey magazine. Page
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Genteel protest
Saturday, July 4th, 2009From the London Review of Books: There was an awfully genteel protest organised by the Tax Justice Network in Jersey earlier this year. The TJN
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Jersey considering extraditing accountant
Monday, June 29th, 2009The Jersey Evening Post reports that Jersey is considering extraditing an accountant to Australia where he is charged with fraud, conspiracy to defraud and money
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