The FT reports that: The global hedge fund market grew by about a fifth to almost $2,500 billion (£1,250 billion) in the first half of
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“The race to the bottom” is a well known phrase in offshore tax. It is the seemingly inevitable way in which tax havens are used
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I have complained about BBC Jersey in the past, here and elsewhere. So, fairness where it is due: they not only quote me here, they
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In March this year I published a blog about Senator Stuart Syvret, then Minister of Health in Jersey. I readily admit that this was a
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We have to ask ourselves: are we, as a government, morally bankrupt when we are taxing pensioners on a loaf of bread? So said Alan
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Accountancy Age reports that Michael Parkinson has dropped out of the totally artificial tax planning schemes organised by UK accountants Vantis. The schemes involved four
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The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday (sorry, no permalink and reproduced in the public interest as a result) that: THE Treasury department has 18 months
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The Marshall Islands has committed to “transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes” to the OECD and so will be removed from the list
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The Chief Minister of Jersey has asked health minister Senator Stuart Syvret to resign. It has been reported that: Six ministers are saying they’ve lost
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