Accountancy Age has been digging about the prospect of another UK tax amnesty. The last only really affected the activities of the UK’s five biggest
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Memo to Alistair Darling: stop issuing mis-information
MEMORANDUM To: Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the ExchequerFrom: Tax Justice NetworkDate: 25th February 2009 Subject: Mis-information about the UK’s responsibilities vis-?†-vis the Crown Dependencies TJN
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Jersey is a tax haven
This isn’t new. But it’s worth airing again. It’s a paper I co-wrote submitted to the US Senate in 2007 on the tax haven activities
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UBS: £37 billion under management in the UK
The Guardian has reported this morning that: The wealth-management arm of UBS, under fire in the United States for its part in a multibillion-dollar tax
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Jersey – can you change the tune?
This was in yesterday’s Jersey Evening Post: Behind the scenes, Island political and business leaders accept that Jersey has never before come under such close
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UBS – shouldn’t they be shut down in the UK now as an improper person to offer financial advice?
UBS is a bank now proven to be guilty of systemic fraud. And now the US Department for Justice is suggesting it assisted at least
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Jersey and Guernsey cost us £80 million a year – and that’s at the low end of the scale
From Hansard: VAT: Channel Islands Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the effect on value added
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The Isle of Man – still subsidised by the UK to be a tax haven
I last reviewed the Isle of Man’s subsidy from the UK as a tax haven in tax year 2004/05. Then I estimated it to be
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What the finance industry plans for Jersey and Guernsey
In a reply to a comment on this blog I got a most insightful reply from a member of the Channel Islands’ finance industry. I
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