Ordinary people pay for tax havens

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Jersey
Jersey

Stark evidence of how ordinary citizens pay for the tax haven status of corporations is revealed by an amendment to Jersey's current budget. Geoff Southern, a Deputy to the Jersey parliament says in the measure that "there can be no doubt that there has been a major transfer of the burden of taxation away from businesses and on to employees". He talks of a "race to the bottom" on tax policy and produces some eye-opening figures.

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