Spotted in the FT yesterday by Robert Palmer of Tax Justice UK: What the heck? Why not have your own tax haven?
Automatic information exchange from tax havens works
A story I have told a number of times is how in June 2009 I was told by the UK Treasury that automatic information exchange
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Tax, cars, Dyson and Singapore
To continue the Singapore-on-Thames theme of the last few days, the Guardian had an article yesterday that, it transpired, was pretty much dominated by my
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Jersey gets on another tax haven blacklist
This comes from the Channels Islands Bailiwick Express: Jersey has been dubbed a blacklisted “tax haven” alongside 20 other jurisdictions by the Netherlands, as the
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A note to Jeremy Hunt: being a tax haven is not necessarily a very good thing
Jeremey Hunt is suggesting the UK’s future after Brexit should be modelled on the tax haven of Singapore. There are some especially odd things about this
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Where are the Big 4 firms of accountants when it comes to illicit financial flows?
Blogging on my phone is something I have never been keen on. But due to flight restrictions I have no choice this morning – iPads
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Beirut morning: where are the accountants willing to discuss illicit financial flows?
I am in Beirut to discuss the impact of illicit financial flows (IFF), including tax abuse, on developing countries. The issue is enormous. UN ESCWA,
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Jersey has already withdrawn it’s fundamentally flawed economic substance legislation
A week ago I wrote about why Jersey’s planned legislation that was intended, in their opinion, to meet the requirements of the EU’s economic substance
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It looks like Jersey is failing an EU imposed tax test, yet again
As I outlined last December, the European Union’s decision to put Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man on what was, in effect, their tax
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