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Tax Havens Today and Tomorrow

A Debate

Sefton Hotel, Douglas

Monday 24th November 2008 at 7.30 pm

Admission free, all welcome

The speakers are:

John Christensen, Director of TAX Justice Network.

John is a development economist and former economic adviser to the UK and Jersey governments. John has researched tax havens and tax policy for many years. He has also played a leading role in campaigning for tighter regulation and control of tax havens and offshore finance centres. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and is based at the New Economics Foundation, London.

Malcolm Couch, Assessor of Income Tax for the Isle of Man.

He is head of the Income Tax Division, responsible for all direct taxation matters in the island and internationally.

Malcolm has had experience in a wide range of technical and managerial roles in both the public and private sectors. His career in tax started in 1989, when he became an Inspector of Taxes in the UK Inland Revenue. After gaining broad experience in traditional districts, he became the District Inspector of Nottingham Trusts, a specialist unit dealing with the tax affairs of 40% of all UK-resident trusts.

In 1996, Malcolm successfully made the transition to the private sector, and had periods as a tax partner with Pannell Kerr Forster and as a senior consultant with Ernst & Young. In both of these roles, he worked with a large number of personal and corporate clients, including multinationals. Whilst with Ernst & Young, Malcolm did a secondment for several months as Head of UK Tax for Boots plc at their Nottingham headquarters.

From the summer of 2001, Malcolm was Oil Products Tax Manager of the North Latin America and Caribbean Region of Royal Dutch Shell. In this position he was responsible for the tax planning and strategy of over 20 group companies operating in 35 jurisdictions, and for managing fiscal audits. He also took part in global tax projects for Shell. Working in an economically and politically volatile region for a major multinational further built Malcolm's experience in cross-border tax issues, international regulation and liaison at a governmental level.

Macolm joined the Isle of Man Government in November 2004 and concentrates primarily on policy, strategy and international matters.

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