This comment was in the Jersey Evening Post, from Geoff Cook, the head of Jersey Finance, which markets the island’s financial services sector: In a
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A hero bows out
Richard Allen, who has tirelessly campaigned against VAT abuse from the Channel Islands, and who has won his campaign to end this abuse, has signed off his blog dedicated
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Guernsey company threatens to take UK to court on VAT abuse
A Guernsey company is threatening to demand a judicial review in the UK of the decision to end Low Value Consignment Relief from Guernsey and Jersey in April next year to
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Yikes! – Christensen and Murphy together – don’t tell Jersey
Who is paying for Jersey to be a tax haven?
The reason why places like Jersey became tax havens was to raise tax revenue from third parties. The tax revenues raised were, in effect, export
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They’re going to love this in Jersey
Accountancy Age have just published a report on Mark Field MP and his comments on tax havens, covered here yesterday. What amused me was their
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The end of Channel Islands’ VAT abuse is nigh
As the BBC reports in Guernsey this morning: A reduction in VAT relief on parcels sent to the UK from outside the EU [introduced today]
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Jersey plans to use its ‘rainy day’ fund as it slips towards inevitable bankruptcy
I have long forecast that as a result of continuing financial deficts arising from Jersy’s decision to impose a 0% tax rate on companies it would eventually
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Offshore lawyers admit that tax haven claims of transparency are bunkum – as some of us have argued for a long time
Cayman News Service has blown the lid on one of the biggest lies of recent years about tax havens / secrecy jurisdiction. It’s been claimed since 2009 that tax information
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