I was interested in this comment in yesterday’s yesterday’s Jersey Evening Post: JERSEY’S zero-ten company taxation system is nearing its ‘sell-by date’ and needs to
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Where is the UK government on Biden’s tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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Jersey: still rotten to its core
I watched the BBC 4 Storyville documentary on the Haut de la Garenne childrens’ home scandal in Jersey last night. The FT has a write
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Jersey says it isn’t a tax haven, but there again, every tax haven says that
I noted a few days ago that the European Parliament has voted to include Jersey on the EU’s tax haven blacklist. That does not add
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It’s time for the EU to get tough on Jersey and Guernsey
I was pleased to note this report in the Guardian yesterday: The European parliament is pushing for UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands,
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Tax haven UK is on its way
The Brexit deal’s arrangements with regard to tax are surprisingly limited, unless they relate to VAT and imports and exports. As far as I can
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There will be dancing in the UK’s tax havens this Christmas
This comes from the government’s analysis of its Brexit deal, leaked this morning to Guido Fawkes (quite deliberately, I am sure): There will be much
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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London and Jersey: still planning to fleece developing countries for money they should not be paying
Time was when I spent much of my time looking at shady finance in developing countries. Now I do so closer to home. But that
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