{"id":913,"date":"2017-11-20T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T15:42:50","slug":"if-you-want-to-know-the-truth-about-the-offshore-world-listen-to-anthony-travers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/if-you-want-to-know-the-truth-about-the-offshore-world-listen-to-anthony-travers\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want to know the truth about the offshore world, listen to Anthony Travers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_915\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-image-915 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Cayman-900x443.jpg\" alt=\"Cayman Islands capital George Town offshore tax debate\" width=\"900\" height=\"443\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAYMAN ISLANDS &#8230; there is a hugely successful partnership between offshore jurisdictions and the City of London, which is viewed with jealousy by the EU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First there were\u00a0the Panama Papers and now more recently the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/paradisepapers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Paradise Papers<\/strong><\/a>. This mass journalistic exercise, or, to be more accurate, theft, springs from the fevered brows of \u00a0the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Basically their thrust is that if every government in the world was daft and greedy enough to tax their citizens until their pips squeaked, the planet\u00a0would be a happier place and poverty would vanish forever.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure it would!<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the avocado toast and we-love Jeremy-Corbyn brigade at The Guardian and BBC were all over this like a rash.<\/p>\n<p>The socialist storm troopers of Christian Aid and Oxfam couldn\u2019t contain themselves, despite trying to convince us every five minutes that they are not really political.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-918\" src=\"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-header-272x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"90\" \/>Anyway, why listen to me when you can read a scintillating defenestration of the enemies of tax-neutral countries like the\u00a0Cayman Islands, Jersey, Guernsey et al by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caymancompass.com\/2017\/11\/19\/thriving-cayman-represents-eus-worst-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Anthony Travers\u00a0in a letter to the Cayman Compass<\/strong><\/a>, the islands&#8217; most respected news source.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Travers OBE, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traversthorpalberga.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>lawyer<\/strong><\/a> who is regarded as the world\u2019s most knowledgeable practitioner in this incredibly complex field.<\/p>\n<p>So complex, it is blindingly obvious that 99.9% of journalists don\u2019t understand it. Nor do most politicians, including our former Prime Minister and his Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>And for you brave Brexiteers, you will be delighted to read Mr Travers\u2019 views on the abject jealousy of the EU as regards the hugely successful partnership between the offshore world and the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>His plans for dealing with the EU politburo should serve as an inspiration to our <a href=\"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/what-to-do-when-everything-that-can-go-wrong-does\/\"><strong>current Prime Minister<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 if she can ever get off her knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there were\u00a0the Panama Papers and now more recently the\u00a0Paradise Papers. This mass journalistic exercise, or, to be more accurate, theft, springs from the fevered brows of \u00a0the International Consortium&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}