Jersey: still occupied
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: Last month External Relations Minister Ian Gorst announced that Jersey was following the UK by introducing a ‘settled-status’
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The IFS has a duty to tell the truth about VAT, and it isn’t
Thursday, June 21st, 2018I posted this as long ago as 2010. I am reposting it because in essence nothing has changed in the UK on this issue since
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Tax Justice Sunday
Sunday, June 17th, 2018Today has been named as Tax Justice Sunday by Church Action for Tax Justice. This post is by the Rev David Haslam of that new organisation: The
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The far-right think tanks like Jersey: now there's a surprise
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018I was interested in a headline in the Jersey Evening Post yesterday that read: THE Island’s financial industry is arguably more transparent than those in
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Jersey is going to lose on beneficial ownership: it really should have the sense to do so gracefully
Thursday, May 24th, 2018As Channel Islands newspaper The Bailiwick Express reported yesterday: Jersey’s financial services sector is being thrust back into the international spotlight with the publication of new
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Winning the war on tax havens, one idea at a time
Friday, May 4th, 2018You can see why the offshore trolls are turning up to protest here. This was a headline from the Jersey Evening Post, yesterday: Which critic? This
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The UK's tax havens: where from here?
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018Yesterday’s decision by the House of Commons to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on the British Overseas Territories, but not the Crown Dependencies, is massively
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The real beginning of the end for tax havens has begun
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018Fifteen years ago John Christensen and I became the first full tme anti-tax haven campaigners in the world. We had almost no funding, apart from
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Today could really mark the beginning of the end for the UK's tax havens
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018Today MPs vote on an amendment to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill that would require the UK to impose a requirement on the UK’s
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