The Jersey Evening Press notes: ISLANDERS are being encouraged to shop benefit cheats through a new confidential phone line and website. Now suppose they put
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Proposal for Jersey to be able to register large ships
Jersey’s desperate attemtps to sell any form of legislation it can offer continue with a plan to set up a register for commercial shipping, according
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Just when Companies House needs all the money it can get to impose regulations – it cuts its fees
One of the most obvious arguments I make in 500,000 missing people: £16 billion of lost tax is that Companies House is failing to regulate
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Some still seem to believe in ‘offshore innovation’
I note from the Kleinwort Benson website that it said last week: Kleinwort Benson has agreed a deal to acquire Close Brothers Offshore Group (“COG”)
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What to do about 500,000 missing companies
My new report, 500,000 missing people: £16 billion of lost tax, highlights the fact that only one third of UK companies actually pay corporation tax
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It’s not OK – we don’t have tsunamis – we have tidal surges
I have noticed that UK discussion on the threat from nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese crisis concentrates on reactor design. I have
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Can the Lib Dems deliver?
The Lib Dems have voted almost unanimously to reject Torybplans to reform the NHS. But will coalition work? And will Lansley listen? If not Coalition
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GE recognises that paying tax is a sign of corporate health
The FT reports this morning: General Electric, the largest US industrial group, expects to pay a “substantially” higher tax charge this year, its chief executive
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500,000 missing companies in the Guardian today
The following is in the Guardian this morning, and since I wrote the report I quote at length: The Treasury could be missing out on
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