The people of Jersey have paid a heavy price to support the tax haven that has been imposed on them
Monday, June 28th, 2021I noted this in the Jersey Evening Post yesterday in response to my weekend essay on that Island’s economic future: THE scale of the shift
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Jersey has a future, but not in finance
Sunday, June 27th, 2021A couple of weeks ago I was asked by Andy Sibcy, the editor of the Jersey Evening Post, if I might write an extended east
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The game is up for tax havens: they should be shedding their tears for the end of their ill gotten gains in private
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021As the FT has reported: Bermuda’s political and business elite is responding to the G7 push for a minimum corporate income tax as it would
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The G7 deal did not set a target corporation tax rate for the world - but the right wing is claiming it did
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021The G7 tax deal, signed at the weekend, had the aim of ending the ‘race to the bottom’ in corporation tax rates, which has seen
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The challenge to Jersey and Guernsey of a new international tax settlement
Monday, June 7th, 2021It has been a morning of making many media comments, including one to ITV in the Channel Islands who have reported this: A leading tax
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Why isn’t the government supporting a global minimum corporation tax rate?
Monday, May 24th, 2021The Daily Record has noted, along with a number of other papers, that: Labour is to stage a Commons vote to try and force the
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Gunboats, Tories and Jersey
Thursday, May 6th, 2021The news is making much of the government’s decision to send gunboats to Jersey today to protect the island, which is a British Crown Dependency,
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Few decisions are as sinister as that to cut funding for arts education
Thursday, May 6th, 2021I was shocked by this story in the Guardian this morning: Artists and musicians have accused the government of neglecting the country’s “cultural national health”
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There is a flaw in the Biden tax plan that has to be addressed if it's going to work, and that's in the accounting
Friday, April 16th, 2021The tax justice movement is, unsurprisingly, keen on the Biden tax plan. What Biden is proposing is fairly straightforward. First, he is suggesting that a
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