Looks like Maples & Calder are making the most of the notoriety of their head office in Cayman: Sometimes you just have to smile. I
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EU 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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The OECD is holding a meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information on September 1-2 in Los Cabos, Mexico. There are
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This is from Lloyds Banking Group’s half year statement: The number the press has talked about is a loss of £4 bn (well, £3.957 bn,
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VAT increase to 20% would be “intently regressive” | Left Foot Forward. This just about sums it up

FT.com / In depth – Iceland bank regulator lines up more cases. Iceland’s top financial regulator is preparing to hand over more cases of suspected
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Banks make $38bn from overdraft fees. US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn in fees for customer overdrafts
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I have an article under the above title on the Demos Open Left site this morning. I argue: Tax is at the core of the
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The BBC note: The Tories have "absolutely no plans" to increase VAT to 20% if they win the next general election, shadow health secretary Andrew
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