'What shall we do with our tax havens?'

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 18:02 2701 2 comments

The government has announced that Michael Foot, currently chairman of the UK office of Promontory Financial Group, will lead the independent review of British offshore financial centres which was announced at Pre-Budget Report 2008.

The brief is to review the “immediate and long-term challenges” facing British offshore tax havens.

Continued...

1066 and all that

leon0001 | Wed, 03/12/2008 - 15:13 | Permalink

Remember that the Channel Islands are part of the ancient Duchy of Normandy and belong to the Queen as her inheritance from William the Conqueror. Their parliaments are not subordinate to the UK parliament. You could even say that the UK belongs to the Channel Islands.

A Radio 4 listener comments

Anonymous | Wed, 03/12/2008 - 09:55 | Permalink

"our offshore financial centers"

back 2 skool 4 U

or maybe an adult learning centre