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Letter to Planet Jersey

John Christensen has written his own blog for TJN on the Jersey responses to Monday’s Panorama, in which he appeared. It’s well worth reading. But
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Post Panorama

The Jersey lobby have been spitting fire and indignation post Panorama on Monday. Things like: It is good to see the record is starting to
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 2nd through February 3rd

These are my links for February 2nd through February 3rd:

• Local bonds are happening – This is debt with a purpose

  Real saving. real investment. Real returns. Real pensions.

  That's what we need

• FT.com / UK / Business – Tories warn of ‘too big’ banks – In which case they'll have to intervene in the market, split them up and create new transaction banks, housing banks, commercial banks and investment banks

  Let's hope they do it

• FT.com / Europe – PM asks Iceland central bank chiefs to quit – It took a social democrat backed by the Left and Greens to bring about change

  Why doesn't that surprise me?

• 02-02-2009 – Levin, Dorgan Question Repatriation Lobbying Effort … – Carl Levin is a man of our times

  He understands exactly the double speak of the offshore tax evaders – and takes them head on

  As he does here, challenging a Rupert Murdoch propagated myth

• 'Tax haven Ireland' on Obama's hit list – And I say they're in a state of denial about it

  Which really won't help them

• Construction: Fears for 1,000 jobs » News » This Is Jersey – Jersey's economy has been built on financial services and building offices for that sector

  Now it is tanking

  The builders want state aid

  And there's no tax to pay it

  Not a pretty prospect

• For Rescue Plan, Risks Are Vast in Revaluing Tainted Assets – NYTimes.com – “To date, the banks have stuck their heads in the sand,” said Lynn E. Turner, a former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, “and demanded that they be paid the price of good apples for bad apples.”
• :: Manx Radio :: Isle of Man News :: – Isle of Man companies support Mugabe

  What a surprise

• FT.com / World – Little magic left at leading law firms – The lawyers sowed the sees of their own destruction

  Let's not cry too much

• Millions could lose out in online tax error | Self-Assessment | This is Money – This is the Revenue doing their level best to shoot themselves in the foot

  This sort of basic error should not happen

• FT.com / Companies / Banks – Barclays’ credit rating downgraded – "Moody’s on Sunday night downgraded Barclays’ credit ratings, saying it expected the UK bank to record ”significant further losses” on credit-related writedowns."

  Or to put it another way: they don't believe the accounts

• Davos: Don't let crisis breed more corruption – Forbes.com – Tax havens were not mentioned at Davos apparently

  Funny that, in Switzerland

  Funny that. amongst the assembled company

  Do these people have any intention of reforming themselves? I do sometimes doubt it

Tax havens cost the UK £18.5 billion a year

Tomorrow night’s Panorama is essential viewing for readers of this blog. Made by John Sweeney it looks at just what happens in tax havens. During
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Jersey does support tax evasion - and so do Guernsey and the Isle of Man

The following press comment has been issued by Jersey Finance: Jersey Finance notes the inaccurate comments made today by the TUC with regard to the
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 29th through January 30th

These are my links for January 29th through January 30th:

• Cover story: 'Rise of the red Tories' by Phillip Blond | Prospect Magazine February 2009 issue 155 – Superficially appealing

  Actually, really quite nasty underneath it all

• We need more than sticking plasters, warns leading Labour backbencher – – John Cruddas urged Mr Brown to launch "two crusades". One would be on "tax justice", including minimum tax rates throughout the incomes scale so that the rich paid their fair share and joining President Obama's crackdown on offshore tax havens.

  The second would be a state-funded programme to build 100,000 houses a year, which would provide homes for those who need them and create 50,000 jobs in the construction industry. "That is the language people will understand – not mechanistic but emotionally in tune with people who are suffering."

  What can I say?

  Go for it!

• Guernsey deal extends taxman's reach – Accountancy Age – Sorry – but as I say in the piece – the evidence is TIEAs are not enough

  Jersey has supplied 4 pieces of data to the USA in 6 years

  I do not call that meaningful exchange

• Offshore Asset Protection – Another Roundup of the Usual Suspects – Bob clearly thinks we exist to supply him with cause for invective

  I've got news for Bob….

  Those governments aren't letting us use their name in vain

• Letter from the City: UK plans amnesty program for offshore bank accounts – Quite funny really: the banks say they aren't involved in offshore tax avoidance but Stephen Timms seems to be saying they are most certainly assisting offshore tax evasion. Why else is an amnesty needed?
• ‘We’ve nothing to hide’ » News » This Is Guernsey – Yes you have

  If you haven't you wouldn't have created the massive veil of secrecy that surrounds all corporate activity in Guernsey

  I wonder if he realises how daft he sounds?

Us tax avoid? Never!

The BBC web site offered the rebuttals made by the four banks which were the subject of the research published by the TUC on their
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British Banks and tax havens

From Bloomberg: Britain’s main banks should provide more detail of their activities in offshore financial centers such as the Cayman Islands and Jersey, a union
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Running scared?

This is from Jersey Finance: ‘Recent reports have suggested that the UK Government is considering implementing an offshore bank account tax as part of a
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