{"id":10603,"date":"2011-06-21T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10603"},"modified":"2011-06-21T07:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T06:14:02","slug":"so-now-we-know-what-the-crown-dependencies-are-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/21\/so-now-we-know-what-the-crown-dependencies-are-for\/","title":{"rendered":"So now we know what the Crown Dependencies are for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fascinating comment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/features\/Could-the-Crown-Dependencies-offer.6787758.jp\" target=\"_blank\">Scotsman newspaper this morning:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Mundell, Scotland Office Minister, said that any comparison between Scotland and the [Crown] Dependencies was \"completely misplaced\".<\/p>\n<p>He said: \"They are on a completely different scale to Scotland and their function is also completely different, that of providing a different tax environment. Scotland is an industrial country with an entirely different profile to the Channel Islands.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we know: apparently it is UK policy that the\u00a0Crown Dependencies provide a 'different tax environment'.<\/p>\n<p>Official confirmation of all <a href=\"http:\/\/treasureislands.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Shaxson has argued in Treasure Islands<\/a> if ever I heard it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fascinating comment in the Scotsman newspaper this morning: David Mundell, Scotland Office Minister, said that any comparison between Scotland and the [Crown]<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/21\/so-now-we-know-what-the-crown-dependencies-are-for\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,80,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guernsey","category-isle-of-man","category-jersey","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}