My friend Pat Lucas in Jersey has been at it again, writing an excellent letter to the Jersey Evening Post today: WHEN I look at
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Jersey drops ever lower into the black hole
As the Jersey Evening Post reports: FINANCE industry profits halved last year to their lowest level since records began, according to official figures released today.
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Laws to get rid of #2: Low Value Consignment Relief
The ConDem government has launched a new web site — called Your Freedom — that is dedicated, it says, to scrapping unnecessary laws. I think
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Time the OECD realised this is the 21st century
I note Bloomberg covered the conference of the British Swiss Camber of Commerce conference (which must have been a humdinger of a do). Somehow it’s
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Laws to get rid of: #1 the domicile rule
The ConDem government has launched a new web site — called Your Freedom — that is dedicated, it says, to scrapping unnecessary laws. Well,
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Where would 2.5 million new private sector jobs come from?
I could have spent some time writing about the absurd assumption the government and its poodles at the Office for Budget Responsibility have made on
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HMRC stops spending on systems designed to collect more tax
Computer Weekly reports that HM Revenue & Customs has frozen spending on IT. This form a department that admits there are 12 serious flaws in
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Is this the next wave to crash?
I have to say I normally pay remarkably little attention to the Sovereign Society in the USA. They are, if I put it nicely, good
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Benefit fraud is 624 times more serious than tax evasion
The tax gap from evasion is, give or take the odd billion or so, £70 billion at present. The total tax gap is about £120
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