I received this email last night under the heading: Help feed children of Grand Cayman today! Quite what the per capita GDP of the Cayman
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Cayman’s economic model is bankrupt – and people in Cayman are saying so
If one believed all the PR that comes out of tax havens all is sweetness and light in these places and the land is flowing
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Tax evasion in the Cayman Islands? Surely not…
This headline in Accountancy Age made me smile for a number of reasons: Why? First of all because HMRC are doing something about tax evasion.
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The Isle of Man is amongst the wealthiest nations in the world – but they’re so secretive the data isn’t available to prove it
I was intrigued by a recent headline in Isle of Man Today that read: The report said: It may come as a surprise to many
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The UK Transparency Bill – extending the requirement for corporate transparency to the UK’s tax havens
I have been writing about the UK Corporate and Individual Tax and Financial Transparency Bill and its requirements. One particularly important requirement is in section 9
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Why are we asking the British tax havens to reform themselves when the Foreign Office says we can impose new law on them?
I was rummaging through various links today and came to the UK Foreign Office White Paper on the Overseas Territories published in June 2012. This contains, on page 14, the following interesting statement in
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I didn’t know I was Jeffrey Sachs’s fellow traveller
In an Op-ed in the Cariobbean Journal under the title Why Jeffrey Sachs is Wrong on the Cayman Islands it is said that: We defer to Professor
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Extending multilateral tax information exchange to the Cayman, the BVI and Bermuda is great news – if it’s more than a hollow gesture
It’s been announced over night that, as expected, the so called G5 tax agreement – between the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – is
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Cayman’s having a little rant, just to confirm it’s a branch office of the City of London
I was amused to read a report of a rant from Anthony Travers, the Chairman of the Cayman Islands’ Stock Exchange, reported in tax-news.com. They say:
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