AXA Wealth International head of proposition Simon Willoughby on tax havens that are not tax havens - and stalking Jimmy Carr.
"It's been a funny few weeks. First, I was travelling to the UK for some meetings when I quite literally bumped into comedian Jimmy Carr at the airport in the Isle of Man. Having spent a considerable amount of time over the last year persuading various parties that the Isle of Man is not a tax haven, I did wonder how I was going to explain my chance encounter with Jimmy Carr "in a tax haven", after his Jersey K2 tax scheme exploits June 2012. In fact he'd been on the island for a sell-out show the night before. Having been unsuccessful in my attempts to get tickets to the show, I d...
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