Island ‘has important role to play’ ¬ª Business ¬ª This Is Jersey.
JERSEY will have an important role to play in solving the global financial crisis, an audience of UK lawyers was told in London last week.
And, as a result, Jersey Finance chief executive Geoff Cook said that he had great confidence in Jersey’s future.
Mr Cook, who was speaking at an event at the Law Society Common Room, said that reputable international finance centres would play a vital part in helping to resolve the world’s financial crisis.
The fantasy of those involved in finance in Jersey continues.
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Organised by a trust company to lawyers. Who gives a hoot what these co-conspirators say to each other? Jersey’s days are numbered, and they can rearrange the titanic’s deck chairs as much as they want.
Richard, it’s called PR, promotion, marketing etc etc…irrespective of what you think about Geoff Cook, Jersey, financial centres, cities, institutions, large corporations etc etc need to promote themselves. You promote yourself every day on this blog and elsewhere and there are some that think your work is fantasy too!
Comment to JohnBuckles.
Richard Murphy must be doing something right.
At least he has got you logging into his “fantasy” blog site every day !!!! – along with every other person working in finance in the offshore tax havens …. sorry offshore finance centres
I am 56 years old and a British citizen due to my parents having been British. I was born outside of the U.K. and have never lived in the U.K. in my life. I have no dual citizenship. I have made all my money outside of the U.K. I have paid all the taxes due in the jurisdictions where the money was made.
I had nothing to do with the incompetence that created the mess that is the finances of the U.K.
Tax is simply a way of sharing the cost of services rendered. However, I have not benefited from the U.K.’s services. Please tell me why you believe I should pay tax to the U.K..
@John
I don’t read just this blog, I read many more than that…I come here as I like seeing all sides of a debate. Whether I believe the majority of what is written on here or not is another matter.
As for every other person working in finance logging onto this site every day, I wouldn’t go that far. If there were logging in statistics on this site, I think we’d get to see how many clicks are made on this site. Maybe there is a real reason why that statistic is not available?
@Steven Jones
Wherever you are in the world the UK will bail you out
That’s why you owe UK tax
Get another passport and we on’t bail you out
Your choice
But you should pay for what you get
So you think I should pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for the almost non-existent chance that I might need the UK ‘to bail me out’. What will that entail? Sending a gunboat? Her Majesty asking foreigners to allow me free passage ‘without let or hindrance’? What if even I do not travel to places where such ‘bailing out’ is necessary?
No question that Jersey abuse their position but that is not the same as every British citizen all over the world having to pay tax to a country with a bankrupt philosophy. One whose people mentally still go to the Last Night of the Proms.
Murphy’s solution of allowing local Jersey people to be exempt will not work for those elsewhere. What about someone who decides to spend the rest of his life saling around the world. being careful to stay away from areas where he might need to be ‘bailed out’. Not everyone lives in a concrete box and sees the highpoint of his life as watching television, you know.