The report I wrote on the UK’s enormous subsidy to the Isle of Man did, unsurprisingly, attract attention in Jersey. At least two politicians asked
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For reasons that will be obvious I cannot comment on a story in the Jersey Evening Post today. Dennis Howlett has though.

A long standing and senior Jersey politician who I have advised on many occasions made a very odd complaint to me recently. He rather angrily
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I hear rumour that the EU is looking seriously at revisions to the Savings Directive. These are the changes that they would like to to
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Accountancy Age has reported what has been known for some time, that Tesco is moving its Jersey CD and DVD operation to Switzerland. The UK
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I couldn’t help but notice a recent but in the Jersey Evening Post – which I read for too often for my own good. They’d
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There’s an interesting and enigmatic note on page 223 of the budget report. It says with regard to excise duties: Small consignment reliefA.124 A measure
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The BBC reported an important development in the CD market yesterday. As they noted: Online music store CD-Wow has been found in contempt of court
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Our recent research shows that the Isle of Man is heavily subsidised by the UK. My best estimate is by £270 million a year, of
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