These are my links for August 17th: Ruth Sunderland: Why subsidise our shameless City when the north deserves a break? | Business | The Observer
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Our Island is overloaded with financial service companies that supply the mechanisms used for corruption, crime and tax avoidance in the developing world.
The following letter in the Jersey Evening Post is too good not to reproduce. I do so with permission of the author: From Jean Andersson.
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Merrill Lynch will cost a lot more than Northern Rock
Tax compliance is paying the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the
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These are my links for August 15th: Merrill's Luck Proves Unlucky For Britain – Forbes.com – This will come back to haunt Merrill Lynch and
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies gives yet more to the rich by planning to abolish inheritance tax
I mentioned yesterday that the IFS did not appear to think that wealth was a basis for charging tax. Now I know why. This is
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Tax relief on mortgages
It’s odd how ordinary house buyers can’t get tax relief for mortgages (and nor should they) but banks can: Merrill Lynch is unlikely to pay
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Why is that?
The review entitled The Political Economy of Tax Policy that the Institute for Fiscal Studies commissioned as part of its Mirrlees review of the future
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These are my links for August 14th: UK lawsuit could be filed tomorrow » News » This Is Jersey – Is this why Jersey's senior
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Is this an IFS joke?
I found this in a slide presentation by Malcolm Gammie QC, one of the directors of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Mirrlees review, when talking
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