Shangri-la - Twinned with Jurby...surely not!

Isle of Man News and Politics host, James Corrin, sends me a link. I thought my reading tastes were wide ranging what with The Star (of Lebanon) and the Finsbury Communist but James supplies a much more exoitic link, ‘The Nepali Times’.

Nepal to us is more associated with twinned towns, mountain holidays and overseas aid but it seems it's also in the arena of ‘tax twinning’ or dodging.
It’s apparently a land of hidden money as well as hidden mystical ‘paradise’ (no pun).

The Times article refers to an old item from 2017 but the usual suspects appear, Mossack Fonseca, the British Virgin Isles and of course our good selves.

Long term readers of these pages will recall I pressed the Treasury after Mossack shut up shop here about records of the business and how long they had to be kept only to be told ‘nothing to see here move along’..

All in all I suppose it's a good thing our tax dodging is so discreet or the good burghers of Jurby would have an expansion to their largest building to accommodate some of the dross from ‘the golden mile’. As it is all our financial services business is squeaky clean ‘whiter than whitewash’ you could say.

Here’s the Nepal Times item:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/…/nepalis-in-tax-havens-swiss…/…

Image: Jurby Prison - A new branch office for the golden mile - surely not!

Bernard Moffatt

Celtic League