CLAIMS that money is flowing out of Guernsey because the wealthy now want their money onshore are wide of the mark, according to Treasury minister Charles Parkinson.

AN ITV programme broadcast on Sunday featuring Martin Clunes in Guernsey with a member of the Commerce and Employment Department has not pleased everyone.

GUERNSEY will never escape the ‘tax haven’ tag, according to GuernseyFinance chief executive Peter Niven.

THOSE who would portray the chief minister’s latest visit to Washington DC as an expensive ‘jolly’ should contemplate exactly what the four-day trip entailed.

AMERICA is looking more favourably on Guernsey then it did, says Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.

PERHAPS the best indication of the difficulties this island faces in the ongoing hysteria over damage the Crown Dependencies allegedly cause as so-called tax havens was provided by the reaction to the progress report from Michael Foot, the man charged by Chancellor Alistair Darling to conduct a hostile review into these finance centres.

AN INDEPENDENT review into British offshore financial centres looks likely to recognise their importance to the UK economy.

GORDON Brown’s plans to crack down on tax avoidance will be difficult to achieve, according to Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.

A PROMINENT campaigner against global tax abuse and the role allegedly played in it by the Crown Dependencies has predicted that the forthcoming report by the Foot Commission imposed on the islands by the UK’s Chancellor will set the scene for these offshore islands to have a post tax haven existence. The trade Guernsey now [...]

GUERNSEY does not partake in the sort of ‘unacceptable’ tax avoidance that Gordon Brown wants to stamp out, according to KPMG executive director Tony Mancini.