So much for Caymans, Switzerland, Puerto Rica and other tax havens the Guardian names in the tax gap series. What about those closer to home, says reader Dr Peter West
You do not really deal with the link to globalisation. At a time when jobs are shifted around the world, with quite tough consequences for British workers but the general approval of politicians and, I suspect, the Guardian, why would companies not attempt to do the same with profits and taxes? Why would you favour an open labour market but not an open capital market or an open tax market? They are surely different sides of the same global coin.
Turning to the practical, have you asked the UK government why it continues
to support Guernsey and Jersey as well as the Isle of Man as tax havens?
Information from Liechtenstein is certainly of interest but maybe you should look closer to home.
The chancellor, Alistair Darling, has commissioned a review of British offshore centres but early noises suggest it might do little to rein them in. Let's hope the Guardian's investigation puts some steel into it.
