I frequently find tax haven behaviour bizarre at best. The mindset that can believe that offshore is a reality is one I admit I do
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Channel Islands’ VAT abuse on the BBC
On 13th February 2011 BBC News 24 covered the increasing pressure being put on the UK Government to end the so called offshore fulfilment industry
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Jersey to keep zero / ten – but with the abusive bits taken out and an unsustainable budget deficit
Channel TV has reported: Jersey’s Chief Minister has announced that the most controversial part of the Zero 10 tax policy – ‘deemed distribution’, will be
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Isle of Man to keep Zero Ten – and abolish the abusive dividend attribution scheme
Today is budget day in the Isle of Man. In her budget speech the Island’s Treasury Minister has announced with regard to the zero /10
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Territorial tax – the new threat to our tax base
I haven’t done a straight talk to camera for some time on this blog. However the issue of territorial taxation appears to be becoming one
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Just a domestic chartered accountant
Last week I was described by Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance as ‘ just a domestic chartered accountant’. He repeated the suggestion on BBC Radio
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Turks & Caicos – the destination for all tax havens with deficits
The Times has reported (from behind its paywall): The British taxpayer is to underwrite a loan of £160 million to support a Caribbean tax haven
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My 2005 report on Jersey and the EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation
I have been asked to put up a link to my 2005 report prepared for a shadow scrutiny committee of the States of Jersey on
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Zero / ten is dead and still Jersey can’t face the truth – probably because it’s too painful
The basis for the European Commission’s High Level Working Party’s decision on the future of zero / ten taxation in Jersey and the Isle of
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