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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Tax competition
Earlier this week the CBI said that UK companies are planning to flee the UK because of our increasing tax burdens. John Christensen and I
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A little learning is a dangeous thing
My colleague in the Tax Justice Network used the above title for his pithy, even forthright comments on a speech by the Bailiff of Jersey
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Jersey gets it wrong, again
Jersey is publishing another new tax law proposal today (follow the links from here). This is its third in a couple of years, and the
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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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Does HSBC know what it is doing?
It’s been reported that HSBC are thinking of leaving the UK because of our tax system. It is said that the group’s head of financial
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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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Heavy Mittal
I mentioned I’ve been doing a fair amount of work for the conventional printed media of late: today brings publication of another report in which
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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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