{"id":60893,"date":"2021-12-29T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=60893"},"modified":"2021-12-29T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:34:31","slug":"tax-haven-cities-of-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/12\/29\/tax-haven-cities-of-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax haven cities of the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/full-list-of-places-aiming-to-become-jubilee-cities-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this announcement on 23 December<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01-550x489.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01-550x489.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01-337x300.png 337w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01-450x400.png 450w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.28.01.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the places applying to be cities in 2022:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37-333x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37-333x1024.png 333w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37-98x300.png 98w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37-500x1536.png 500w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37-130x400.png 130w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-10.27.37.png 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peel, Isle of Man; Douglas, Isle of Man; Georgetown, Cayman Islands and Gibraltar are on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Each likes to claim it is quite independent of the UK, except when it suits them of course. Then they are tax havens doing their utmost to undermine the UK tax system and the rule of law in this country.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmation was required that the best sign that a place is a tax haven is having the Queen's head on its stamps this surely is all that is required.<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy on all parts, from the monarch, to the government, to these places, is quite staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this announcement on 23 December: These are the places applying to be cities in 2022: Peel, Isle of Man; Douglas, Isle of Man;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/12\/29\/tax-haven-cities-of-the-uk\/\"><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":[22,6,80,32,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cayman","category-isle-of-man","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60893","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=60893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}