{"id":13753,"date":"2012-01-21T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13753"},"modified":"2012-01-21T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T06:57:50","slug":"13753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/21\/13753\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang on a moment – isn’t that a ‘have you stopped beating your wife question?’ question"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is quite amusing. The Isle of Man has taken umbrage with Ed Miliband for his criticisms of the island's continuing use as a tax haven (which\u00a0is indisputable to anyone willing to look at the evidence) and the local\u00a0paper, Isle of Man Today, has taken\u00a0up\u00a0the issue. As they report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Monday, we asked the Labour Party central office whether Ed Miliband genuinely believes the Isle of Man is not as well regulated as the UK, and asked the party to provide figures showing the number of people\/amount of money that has been put into the Isle of Man illegally and what evidence it had of the island\u2019s non-co-operation with UK authorities.<\/p>\n

We also asked the party to confirm whether it was referring to the legal practice of tax avoidance or the illegal one of tax evasion.<\/p>\n

iomtoday had not received a response as this story went live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well of course they haven't received a reply. That's\u00a0because\u00a0I know anything\u00a0about\u00a0what's\u00a0happening\u00a0(I don't). I know no one could reply -\u00a0because\u00a0the information is not available. The secrecy in the Isle of Man makes it very hard to estimate any such thing - which is why\u00a0best\u00a0estimates\u00a0had to be used by the Labour party. They happened to be mine.<\/p>\n

But to argue Labour's wrong to criticise the abuse of secrecy\u00a0because\u00a0data on those using that secrecy does not exist\u00a0because\u00a0of\u00a0the existence of that secrecy is\u00a0quite\u00a0absurd. Surely even the Isle of Man can see that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is quite amusing. The Isle of Man has taken umbrage with Ed Miliband for his criticisms of the island’s continuing use as a tax
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