Cross-posted from Treasure Islands: A petition has been launched which is introduced as follows: “Leah McGrath Goodman is an American investigative journalist, author and former UK resident who
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The European Union Savings Tax Directive is a vital weapon against tax evasion. That’s it’s only purpose. Introduced in 2005 it requires that all EU states
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When Jersey first planned to move to a zero percent corporation tax system, with funds lost being replaced by a sales tax equivalent to VAT I predicted
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Jersey is paying a heavy price for taking on the UK on the issue of the VAT abuse that was operated by companies such as
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Mike Dun from Jersey joined the Tax Justice Network at its conference in Essex last week and made this video. Skip the first twenty seconds or
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The Guardian’s editorial today renames the Crown Dependencies ‘the loophole islands’ since they have appreciated that these places are about regulatory abuse in all its forms
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The Guardian has begun a mini-series on the Channel Islands today. As it notes in the second part of the series: [T]he most lucrative corner
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The Guardian reports this morning that Sir Philip Bailhache, the foreign minister, former Bailiff and former senior judge of Jersey, thinks it’s time for Jersey to declare independence form the UK. As they
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Jersey is at the heart of the latest tax avoidance scandals in the UK, almost univitably. Of course they just shrug it off and say it’s
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