Richard Allen, who has tirelessly campaigned against VAT abuse from the Channel Islands, and who has won his campaign to end this abuse, has signed off his blog dedicated to this issue since this is a campaign that can safely be said to have concluded.

Richard never imagined he'd be a tax campaigner. Indeed, in many ways he wasn't. He wanted a level playing field for business freee from the distortions that tax abuse can create.

I salute his work. He's thanked me on his blog - but this was really his campaign and without his work it would not have been won. He's a real hero. And so I share the video he put up to signal the end of his work, and look forward to the day when we can say the same for tax havens as a whole: