As yesterday’s Guardian article on the mess Jersey finds itself in noted, that island is facing a financial black hole of £125 million a year.
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The bank of mum and dad is fine for the few. We need accessible housing for everyone
The FT has reported this morning that: The number of UK first-time homebuyers who step on to the housing ladder mortgage-free has tripled since the
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It’s time for KPMG to answer questions on Tax Reporting Standards
KPMG had a blog post published on the web site of the Covi Think Tank yesterday in response to my call for Tax Reporting Standards. Chris Morgan,
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What does growth mean for the Left?
I have been sitting in an economics seminar. Such things are part of my life. Don’t feel sorry for me: I enjoy such them. The
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More signs of trouble
From the FT headlines, this: And this People aren’t spending. And companies aren’t spending. And government is not spending. Welcome to the economy of 2016.
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The narrow minded view on tax
This comment was made by US Senator Orrin Hatch – the chair of the Senate finance committee – on 1 December when talking about the
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The Oxford Centre for the Non-Taxation of Business is at it again on corppration tax
At about the time I first began writing about Jersey the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation was created. Long known in tax justice circles as the Oxford
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Jersey provides a warning to the UK: tax cuts and finance are the way to go bust
The Guardian’s ‘long read’ this morning is headed as follows: Long term readers of this blog will have noticed I have been talking about the
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Do we face government by diktat?
This is too important not to share, and is from the FT: David Cameron has been secretly drawing up a plan to bypass an increasingly
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