I have been subject to some fairly predictable verbal assaults from some in the financial services industry over the last few days, especially but not
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Defining corruption
I was in Oslo this week for a conference on Illicit Financial Flows. There is little I can report – the event took place under
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286 in the USA – and a tax fraudster
Accountancy Age reports: A billionaire – ranked 286th in Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans – accused of hiding millions in foreign bank accounts,
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Switzerland: $600 billion of tax evaded cash
Marty Sullivan at Tax Analysts is continuing his series on tax evaded cash in the world’s tax havens. This time he has considered Switzerland. His
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All’s not well offshore
I seem to have touched a raw nerve in Jersey and Guernsey with a recent blog (There are lies, d***ed lies and some in the
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Conrad Black gets 6 years
Quite right to. And this is worth remembering: At Chicago’s federal court, Judge Amy St Eve told the former owner of the Daily Telegraph: “No
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No, no, no
Richard Hay of London lawyers Stikeman Elliot has been in Jersey offering more of his well known opinion, which is always strongly pro-tax havens. As
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There are lies, d***ed lies and some in the offshore financial services industry
My blog entitled The Crown Protectorates – Open for Money Laundering was reposted on the Is This Jersey? web site. They often are. And, as
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Banking in the name of charity
Worth reading the Guardian’s letters on bank’s abuse of charity. PS I gather I’m in the Guardian’s letters of the year compendium. Better get a
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