Our recent research shows that the Isle of Man is heavily subsidised by the UK. My best estimate is by £270 million a year, of
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The Guardian has reported that: Ed Balls, economic secretary to the Treasury, ruled out any major tax changes to the treatment of private equity during
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I’m doing a presentation this afternoon for Christian Aid to a range of opinion formers on the need for country-by-country reporting within both the extractive
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I was amused to find there were 25 visits to this blog from the Isle of Man Government yesterday. I can’t imagine why this happened
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There’s a debate going on at AccountingWEB that has spread far and wide (well, I exaggerate a little, maybe) about what small and medium sized
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I note the Isle of Man’s response to my research published yesterday. They told the Observer: ‘We refute strongly any suggestion that the Isle of
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Tax Research issued a press release today on work I’ve undertaken on the income of the government of the Isle of Man. The full text
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This from Global Witness concerning Sarah Wykes who has been detained in Angola: 16 March 2007 Angola: Attorney General grants Dr Wykes appeal to leave
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The press is full of discussion of the American ‘sub-prime’ mortgage market. Let’s be real. ‘Sub-prime’ refers to people. The Guardian explains the use of
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