The deception services industry
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006There’s a good article on ‘Is this Jersey’ in which someone called Niccolo M (who as far as I know I am unacquainted with personally)
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The Tax Gap hurts shareholders
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that: Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive
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Murphy v Walker - coming to a venue in Jersey
Monday, November 27th, 2006On yesterday’s Sunday Talkback show on BBC Radio Jersey Senator Frank Walker, the First Minister of the island (equivalent to prime minister was asked if
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Let's get real about cash accounting - it would be a nightmare
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Nichola Ross-Martin, editor of AccountingWEB has written a tetchy response to an observation I made on that web site in which I criticised her call
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Organised avoidance - the Jyske Bank
Thursday, November 9th, 2006I’ve had my attention drawn to the Jyske Bank in Denmark. It says of itself: Jyske Bank employs a staff of more than 4,000 and
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Do sham trusts impose a cost on society?
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006I’ve written a bit about sham trusts on here of late. It’s good to have the evidence therefore that they really do impose a cost
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Jersey - putting tax before regulation
Thursday, September 21st, 2006The correspondence between Jersey’s tax officials, civil servants and politicians draw attention to some pretty unsavoury consequences of that island’s new trust laws. It would
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Thailand - the undeniable evidence that tax havens undermine democracy
Thursday, September 21st, 2006The coup in Thailand provides unfortunate but undeniable evidence that tax havens undermine democracy. The coup has been motivated by the hatred of the corruption
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Unreasonable men
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006My friend Dennis Howlett has been giving this blog some plugs, and has even been saying some kind things about me. He does so in
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