Jersey - rotten to the core
Sunday, September 17th, 2006The Observer published a story today about an email from Jersey that had been sent to it, seemingly inadvertently. Nick Mathiason at the Observer was
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Cadbury Schweppes - an analysis
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006The European Court of Justice has given its long awaited ruling on the Cadbury Schweppes case. One of the better commentaries on the web (and
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The Revenue’s reaction to TJN position on corruption
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs reacted to criticisms from the Tax Justice Network made by John Christensen when he spoke to the Royal Geographic
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Rattling the cage
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Any writer likes to be read. It goes with the patch. So I can’t help but say that it’s been good to note that the
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More Jersey hypocrisy
Monday, August 21st, 2006The Jersey Financial Services Commission has published a new draft Code of Practice for the 190 trust companies that undertake business in that island. The
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Information exchange
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Accountancy Age has reported that HM Revenue & Customs: HM Revenue and Customs hopes to make progress on negotiations with the Cayman Islands, China, Germany,
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There is always more than one way to finance a project
Monday, July 24th, 2006One of the regular readers of this blog is Chris Steel. I admire Chris a lot, for a great many reasons. One of them is
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Jersey – on the slippery slopes to not knowing their clients
Thursday, July 13th, 2006To date Jersey has had a quite unusual claim it can make in the financial services world. Unlike the UK, for example, it apparently requires
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Guernsey's "strange ecnomic policy"
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006I was interviewed by BBC Radio Guernsey yesterday and they then put up a feature on our discussion. It does seem that several people have
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