The Times has reported: A multimillion-pound Revenue & Customs publicity campaign to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance used an advertising agency ultimately controlled in
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Take HSBC, add Jersey and mix with HMRC
The FT has reported this morning that: Jersey bank account holders have been invited by the UK tax authority to declare any undisclosed tax liabilities
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That Jersey black hole – and my 2007 forecast that it would happen
As yesterday’s Guardian article on the mess Jersey finds itself in noted, that island is facing a financial black hole of £125 million a year.
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Jersey provides a warning to the UK: tax cuts and finance are the way to go bust
The Guardian’s ‘long read’ this morning is headed as follows: Long term readers of this blog will have noticed I have been talking about the
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Once a tax haven, always a tax haven: Jersey’s view of itself
This poll result comes from the Jersey Evening Post: The people of Jersey seem to think once a tax haven, always a tax haven. It’s
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The people of Jersey aren’t happy at being a tax haven – and rightly so
A number of stories have come out of Jersey in the last day or so that reveal just what it thinks about itself, with some clues
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The UK’s tax havens are still far too secret for the good of the world
This press release comes from a combination of NGOs, all of whom I have worked or co-operated with o9ver time, so I am happy to
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Jersey is the breeding ground for inequality
I have long argued that tax havens are bad for the world: they are used as the deliberate launchpad for attacks on the right of
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Jersey’s economic wasteland enjoys a one-off dead-cat bounce
The Jersey Evening Post had a headline yesterday that read: Jersey’s economy beats rest of Europe As exercises in wishful thinking go this is a pretty
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