Pennies from haven
Last week’s huge leak of the ‘Paradise Papers’ has put the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in the spotlight. But the original tax haven was actually New Jersey, not Jersey.
— New Jersey was struggling financially in the 1880s until governor Leon Abbett liberalised the state’s incorporation laws.
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