The BBC has reported (although I have edited): The billionaire Barclay brothers are closing businesses in Sark, with the loss of about 100 jobs –
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An Open Letter to Bob Key, the Dean of Jersey
The following is from the TJN web site, but so important I reproduce it here. I have discussed this issue with John Christensen since as
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What are the tax havens ashamed of?
I was at a session in he EU Parliament on the proposed reform of the EU Savings Tax Directive, speaking as an expert witness to
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Will the Tax Haven review have any meaning?
I gather that the recently announced review of UK tax havens is to be run by Michael Foot, a former Bank of England and FSA
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No one has risen to the challenge
I have had very large numbers of comments from secrecy jurisdictions, and the Isle of Man in particular, over the last few weeks. So on
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Harbours of resentment
Vanessa Houlder has an excellent article in the FT this morning, which I think genuinely seeks to be objective on the offshore issue, and is
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The critical question that Jersey Guernsey and the Isle of Man must answer
Alastair Darling has announced his independent review of British offshore financial centres. Over the last few weeks traffic on the site from Jersey, Guernsey and
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Jersey swings left
Jersey had an election yesterday. As the Jersey Evening Post has reported: THE Jersey Democratic Alliance scored the biggest success for party politics in 60
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Jersey begins to sink
This article is from the Jersey Evening Post. It is significant, so I reproduce a lot of it: JERSEY’S finance industry has weathered the autumn
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