As the Guardian noted today, there appears to be an enormous price attached to the measures needed to stabilise the Eurozone to meet the demands
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As I have noted (more than once) Jersey and the Isle of Man failed the requirements of the EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation last year.
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The Belfast Telegraph featured an article yesterday where a KPMG partner in Belfast argued Ireland will never give up its low tax rate whatever Merkel
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It is quite extraordinary that one of the key proposals to come out of yesterday’s meeting between Merkel and Sarkozy was a demand that Eurozone countries out balanced budget legislation in place
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The reality that banks are out of control and that you can’t run a common market without some degree of commonality in tax has finally
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The EU thinks it’s saved the Euro, again. It hasn’t. This is a deal, summarised here, that to coin the current vernacular, kicks the euro down the
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The Guardian has produced this summary of the Euro deal, and it’s good. It misses detail – but then so does the main document, but it also summarises the
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Little commented on this morning is clause 10 of yesterday’s Euro deal, which says (my highlight added): We are determined to continue to provide support to countries under programmes
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It looks like the German plan of simply asking banks to do the Eurozone a favour by rolling over their bonds into new,  discounted, long-term
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