Dennis Howlett was the man who persuaded me to blog. He’s got a lot to answer for. He wrote a powerful blog of his own
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The Guardian’s editorial today renames the Crown Dependencies ‘the loophole islands’ since they have appreciated that these places are about regulatory abuse in all its forms
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The TJN Transfer Pricing conference organised in Helsinki , in partnership with Finland’s KEPA and the Foreign Affairs ministry of Finland, was a resounding success. In essence,
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I was on Radio Guernsey yesterday morning. My main point was that Guernsey is a tax haven or secrecy jurisdiction as I prefer to call
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This table comes from HMRC’s 2011-12 accounts, just published: Note which tax has by far the biggest write offs: it’s VAT. OK, 200 million was
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I argued recently that if the banking crisis in Europe was to be solved then direct invstemnt in banks had to be allowed. Last night
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Endless hours could be spent writing on Barclays and Bob Diamond. I’ll just quote the FT editorial instead: The bank’s response has been inadequate. While it has
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