The charity Oxfam is calling on the EU to place Jersey on its tax blacklist as part of efforts to crack down on tax avoidance.
Oxfam’s new report, Blacklist or Whitewash?, names the 35 countries that should feature according to its interpretation of the EU’s definition of a tax haven.
Six have British links. Alongside Jersey they name the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar and Anguilla.
Guernsey doesn’t get mentioned.
The EU’s latest blacklist is due out next week.
Oliver Pearce, Oxfam’s Tax Policy Advisor, said: “If the EU is serious about preventing tax havens from engaging in harmful practices that affect us all then it should stand up to political and corporate pressure and create a genuine blacklist, not a whitewash.”
The States of Jersey says the island complies with standards demanded by the EU and other organisations including the OECD.
Just last week the Chief Ministers of Jersey and Guernsey were in Brussels promoting the interests of the islands.
