The UK’s Parliament has an odd mechanism called an ‘Early Day Motion’ (EDM). These are explained in detail here. What they really do is give
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BBC Panorama – David Mills
I was pleased to take part in BBC’s Panorama programme last night. The programme discussed David Mills, the former husband of UK cabinet minister Tessa
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Conservative indifference to offshore
I have an article in the London Evening Standard today (on which more, later) in which I say the Tories are doing some things right
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More power to the Revenue
Accountancy Age has reported plans for new powers for the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs to be included in a new Fraud Bill to be
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Jersey shoots itself in the foot
Jersey’s new trust laws have been the subject to some comment on this site, and in the Jersey and UK national press, at least partly
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The Jersey response to their civil servant’s emails
The Jersey Evening Post has published two articles resulting from publication of the emails sent in error by a Jersey civil servant to the Observer
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The Bermuda Triangle
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the printed media of late on both sides of the Atlantic. A couple published last week. This
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The more you have the easier it is to avoid tax
Take this story from Forbes, for example. As they put it: Why pay tax if you don’t have to? Thomas Siebel used a corporate beast
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What the OECD had to say in Seoul
I was reminded by an email from Jeffrey Owens (head of tax at the OECD) that I have not given sufficient (in fact, any) coverage
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