This is personal

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A commentator on this blog said yesterday that:

I am sorry but I am a Chartered Accountant working in Jersey and your comments beggar belief!

In fact you sound like your problem with the Channel Islands has gone personal.

One main reason for not working in the Channel Islands is because you can work in Bermuda and pay no tax at all and this is the move I am considering.

Too true, this is personal. It's personal for the accountant in question. His greed is driving him to avoid his obligations to society, anywhere. That's a personal choice. It's my personal choice to say that his greed, and that of those who work with him in the offshore finance industry hosted by tax haven governments, is harming the poorest people in the world.

Last Tuesday I told the offshore conference that I was attending that I was certain that the offshore finance industry is a direct cause of poverty and death in the poorest nations of the world by either directly denying the taxation resources those countries need to meet those people's needs or by deliberately providing the secrecy that allows corruption, including tax evasion to take place throughout the world, with consequent loss of the necessary resources to alleviate poverty in society at large.

For those who suffer and even die as a result of the activities of the offshore finance 'industry' this issue is very personal indeed.

I have a choice on this issue. Anyone has a choice on this issue. That choice is to side with the poor or to side with greed. That is a personal choice. I've made mine.

Clearly my commentator has as well. But, with all respect to him, it's his that does I think beggar belief. Why would you choose to work in a way that you must know harms the world's poorest people?


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