As Music Week reports: The Federation of Small Businesses has lent its support to the campaign to bring an end to Low Value Consignment Relief,
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Jersey opens benefit fraud hotline – but what about tax cheats?
The Jersey Evening Press notes: ISLANDERS are being encouraged to shop benefit cheats through a new confidential phone line and website. Now suppose they put
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Proposal for Jersey to be able to register large ships
Jersey’s desperate attemtps to sell any form of legislation it can offer continue with a plan to set up a register for commercial shipping, according
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Some still seem to believe in ‘offshore innovation’
I note from the Kleinwort Benson website that it said last week: Kleinwort Benson has agreed a deal to acquire Close Brothers Offshore Group (“COG”)
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They’re really tolerant of opposition on Guernsey – to the point of demanding it must stop – now
I have often argued that the Channel Islands have been subject to regulatory capture. That is, that these quasi-independent parts of the UK (for that
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BBC Guernsey reveals its complete political bias – again
I have a rather old fashioned view that the BBC should be unbiased. Quaint I know, but built into its charter, I note. In Guernsey
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House of Lords discussion on Channel Island’s VAT abuse
Channel Island’s VAT abused to be ended?
From the BBC today: A debate in the House of Lords gained cross-party support to close a VAT loophole which costs the UK government £130m
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ECOFIN confirms Jersey and the Isle of Man have harmful tax systems
Unsurprisingly the EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Committee confirmed on Tuesday that Jersey and the Isle of Man had tax systems that did not comply
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