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From Roger Goodwin. AS a recent arrival in the Island following five years living in France, I am following with interest the current debates aired in your newspaper over budget deficits, zero-ten taxation and the Carswell Report. A couple of months ago, I managed to attend some of the free lunch-time talks at Law House; […]

From Richard Murphy, director, Tax Research LLP. SIR Philip Bailhache (JEP, 14 December) is wrong when he says Jersey’s fight over zero-ten is with the UK. It never has been, and it is not now. Indeed, until 2009 it is almost certainly true that the UK provided considerable protection for the Crown Dependencies against the […]

From Robin Pittman. SIR Philip Bailhache wishes to consider the matter of Jersey becoming an independent nation. Might it be more practicable if first we considered federation with Guernsey, with all the benefits that would accrue for the two Bailiwicks’ finance industries, tourism, health services and travel, and with greater influence in our mutual dealings […]

AS The Reader may recall, over the last few months I’ve been kept entertained in my quieter moment by looking at the online comments made about news stories and the like – comments which, I have to say, are often more entertaining than Letters to the Editor.

WHAT a pickle Jersey has got itself into, as 2010 draws to a close.

From Pierre Horsfall I WRITE with reference to Sir Philip Bailhache’s letter published on Tuesday 14 December under the headline ‘This resistance to the UK Treasury deserves support’. What actually happened in the late 1990s when the EU Code of Conduct of taxation was first announced supports Sir Philip’s views and is worth recounting. The […]