As I outlined last December, the European Union’s decision to put Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man on what was, in effect, their tax
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Jersey’s lacking substance
The Bailiwick Express, which publishes Channel Island news, has reported: A US sanctions-hit aluminium company linked to a controversial billionaire Russian oligarch accused of extortion and
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Poverty in Jersey
Jersey likes to suggest that it is a deeply successful finance centre where milk and honey flows for the benefit of all. That’s not true. As
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There’s no surprise that the UK’s tax havens fund the Institute of Economic Affairs. Who else would do their dirty work?
I share this from the website of Greenpeace Unearthed: A recent report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) pushing back against a crackdown on
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Jersey: still occupied
The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: Last month External Relations Minister Ian Gorst announced that Jersey was following the UK by introducing a ‘settled-status’
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The far-right think tanks like Jersey: now there’s a surprise
I was interested in a headline in the Jersey Evening Post yesterday that read: THE Island’s financial industry is arguably more transparent than those in
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Jersey is going to lose on beneficial ownership: it really should have the sense to do so gracefully
As Channel Islands newspaper The Bailiwick Express reported yesterday: Jersey’s financial services sector is being thrust back into the international spotlight with the publication of new
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Beneficial ownership for the Overseas Territories is just the start: there is a long way to go to get corporate transparency
My apologies: it’s been a slow start to the day. It was, for me, a late evening. There was a small celebration of the victory
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Winning the war on tax havens, one idea at a time
You can see why the offshore trolls are turning up to protest here. This was a headline from the Jersey Evening Post, yesterday: Which critic? This
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