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Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The taxman cometh | Comment is free | The Guardian . In the 60s, the Isle of Man recast itself as an offshore tax haven. How will the Manx ‘nation’ react now that status is under threat? The Guardian considers the issue. And draws no conclusions. Apart, it seems, from the fact that the Tax Justice Network is unpopular [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Firework displays past Bonfire Night must be registered, the Isle of Man government warns.
Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
A regular commentator on this blog – passing by the name of Jersey Girrl, who is, without doubt close to the Jersey establishment, has commented on this blog, saying: It interests me that Richard and John C find it impossible to acknowledge that the governments in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man accept that they [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Police in the Isle of Man arrest two men after trouble breaks out in the smoking area of a nightclub.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A policeman in the Isle of Man is forced to resign after being found guilty of discreditable conduct.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In the 60s, the Isle of Man recast itself as an offshore tax haven. How will the Manx 'nation' react now that status is under threat? Of all the ways to think about the Isle of Man – tax haven, motorbike race course, former birching capital of western Europe – the most difficult for the outsider to grasp and accept is the description "nation". How big is the nation? Thirty-three...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , On Two Wheels , USA , Racing Mavizen TTX02 - Click above to enlarge Earlier this year at the annual time trials at the famed Isle of Man, the inaugural TTXGP electric motorcycle race proved that battery-powered bikes can be just as entertaining and exciting as their gasoline-swilling and emissions-spewing siblings. Not quite as fast, of course, but still a thrill over the...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A charity which caters for many disabled people on the Isle of Man cuts 17 jobs to cope with the economic crisis.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The family of a 38-year-old accountant who was hit and killed by a car on the Isle of Man pay tribute to her.
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The other day I spotted a coin on the floor and victoriously went to pick it up as finding coins on the floor is my only source of income. I turned it over in my hand and found it be American dime. So I had made a pointless 7.5 pence. But really, how weird. Change here is an important part of the culture, I think. Mostly because there is so much of it. In the US $1 coins do exist, but are barely legal...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , SEMA Show , Performance , Motorcycle , Alternative Fuel Mavizen TTX02 - Click above to enlarge Right on schedule, Mavizen has released its TTX02 electric motorcycle at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Well, if you listen to Azhar Hussain, TTXGP founder and the entrepreneur behind this racebike, the TTX02 is a "laptop on wheels." How so? For starters, each machine is...
Blog4Yoga4Life (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
My Aunty Lena is 93 and she has just had a family gathering to celebrate having her book published 'The Chronicles of Lena Barden'. I found she had kept a newspaper cutting about my Grandad on my Mothers side, and although I knew he was in the Police and had worked in the Isle of Man I knew little more. This article just gave me more details and lovely quotes, that I can just imagine him saying. I...
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Lena Barden
Where can I get a copy of the book? Jack & Lena Barden were friends of my late Father.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Anyone caught bringing drugs into the Isle of Man risks being jailed for up to 14 years, Manx police say.
Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Union backing public sector workers as cutbacks loom - Isle of Man Today . THE president of trade union Prospect has pledged its support for members in the Manx public sector as government cutbacks loom. Catherine Donaldson visited the Island on Monday in the wake of government warnings there could be public sector job losses to [...]
Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
BBC - Douglas Fraser’s Ledger: An extremely bleak spending winter. But there’s another lesson for those hoping to design a change in [Scotland']s tax powers: if the Isle of Man is any guide, don’t assume the Treasury will help making the transition a smooth one. That’s particularly for those, like the Manx, who use corporation tax to [...]
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carrolltrust | 15/10/2009
Carroll Foundation assets world wide interests which have been the subject of criminal liquidation include the London & Central Properties Plc Carroll Industries Corporation Plc group which rumours abound that it was used within a fraudulent "name switch operation" to liquidate assets in excess of $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars). The Carroll Global Corporation civilian and military industrial
carrolltrust | 29/06/2009
HM Crown Ministry of Defence interests with the Farnborough Aerospace Development Corporation a Carroll Foundation Global Group Structure are the victims in this formerly HM Government Carroll Trust owned research development facility which involved “just about every form of military aviation development you could imagine”. TAG Aviation presently located at Farnborough Airport executed major fraudulent
carrolltrust | 17/06/2009
TAG Aviation at Farnborough Airport are the subject of major criminal allegations of serious corruption obstruction racketeering complicity in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy and corruption case. Furthermore the Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust Case law enforcement "Direction and Control Sanctions" are being delayed and obstructed by Baroness Scotland QC Britain's
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