In 2005 I was engaged by the States of Jersey to advise a Shadow Scrutiny Panel on the problems inherent in its propsoed tax laws
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I hate to say it to Jersey, but I was right all along: you’re going bust
The Jersey Evening Post has headlines this week that include: Where did it all go wrong? – Ministers announce predicted shortfall of £125 million by
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If tax havens create prosperity why can’t 1 in 10 in Jersey afford a cooked meal every day?
This comes from tonight’s Jersey Evening Post: So what does that say? First, in a tax haven there are those unable to access banking. Second,
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It’s been a disaster for Jersey to be a tax haven
In the late 1990s my friend and tax justice colleague John Christensen left Jersey, fed up with saying, in his role as senior economics adviser
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Jersey gives up just a few of its secrets
As the Guardian has noted this morning: It reads like a Who’s Who of Britain’s most prominent political donors; the wealthy elite who have donated
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TJN’s response to Jersey is “if you’d like to debate we’re happy to do so at anytime, but you won’t”
I mentioned a study that Jersey were promoting on this blog more than a week ago. It is being discussed in the City of London
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Jersey issues bonds to pay for social housing a decade after I suggested the idea
It must be a least a decade ago that Deputy Geoff Southern of Jersey and I both recommended that Jersey raise money to invest in
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Jersey’s getting tetchy
I received this mail yesterday. Well, to be precise, it was forwarded to me. Either way it turned up in my in box: A CSFI
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The EU has, at long last, got full tax information exchange and that’s bad news for the UK’s tax havens
I have been campaigning on issues relating to the European Union Savings Tax Directive since 2005, at least. It was, therefore, pleasing to note that Bloomberg
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