{"id":8395,"date":"2011-01-10T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:16:01","slug":"jersey-barking-up-the-wrong-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/10\/jersey-barking-up-the-wrong-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey &#8211; barking up the wrong tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/2011\/01\/10\/zero-ten-there-is-no-defence\/#ixzz1AeKITl2j\">to an article in the Jersey Evening Post <\/a>today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">JERSEY is \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2barking up the wrong tree&rsquo; if it thinks it can defend its tax system against attacks from Europe and the UK, a long-time critic of offshore finance centres has argued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">In an article commissioned by political party the Jersey Democratic Alliance about the Island&rsquo;s controversial zero-ten business tax regime, Richard Murphy warns that Crown Dependencies cannot simply sidestep the concerns of influential European tax officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">He says that the reform of zero\/ten, which requires finance companies to pay ten per cent on profits and non-finance companies to pay nothing, is one of the biggest issues facing Jersey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full article <a href=\"http:\/\/jdajersey.co.uk\/Richard%20Murphy.htm\">to which they refer is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Jersey Evening Post today: JERSEY is \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2barking up the wrong tree&rsquo; if it thinks it can defend its tax<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/10\/jersey-barking-up-the-wrong-tree\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","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=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}