Jersey (Bailiwick of Jersey)
https://www.humantruth.info/jersey.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
| Jersey Bailiwick of Jersey |  |
|---|---|
| Status | Dependency (Crown Dependency) |
| Sovereignty | UK |
| Capital | Saint Helier |
| Land Area | |
| Location | Europe |
| Groupings | Small Islands |
| Population | |
| GNI | |
| ISO3166-1 Codes | JE, JEY, 8321 |
| Internet Domain | .je2 |
| Currency | Pound (JEP)3 |
| Telephone | +444 |
- Overview
- Jersey's Human Rights, Equality & Tolerance
- Jersey's Responsibility Towards The Environment
- Jersey's Modernity and Learning
- Religion and Beliefs
- Tax Evasion
- Links
1. Overview
“Jersey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom of Normandy that held sway in both France and England. These islands were the only British soil occupied by German troops in World War II. Jersey is a British crown dependency but is not part of the UK or of the European Union. However, the UK Government is constitutionally responsible for its defense and international representation.”
CIA's The World Factbook (2013)5
As a territory of the UK, this territory does not have standard international statistics available for it in its own right.
2. Jersey's Human Rights, Equality & Tolerance
Prejudice Datasets:
| LGBT Equality in the 2020s Higher is better6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Total Score6 | |
| 1= | Germany | 4.88 |
| 1= | Spain | 4.88 |
| 3 | Portugal | 4.81 |
| ... | ||
| 51= | Gibraltar | 1.62 |
| 51= | Tristan da Cunha | 1.62 |
| 51= | Bonaire | 1.62 |
| 51= | Jersey | 1.62 |
| 51= | Sint Eustatius | 1.62 |
| 51= | Saba | 1.62 |
| 57 | Israel | 1.58 |
| 58 | Taiwan | 1.57 |
| Europe Avg | 1.77 | |
| World Avg | -1.21 | |
| q=215. | ||
3. Jersey's Responsibility Towards The Environment
#biodiversity #deforestation #over-exploitation #the_environment
This rank is calculated from 21 data sets. Jersey does better than average for its forested percent change 2000-20207.| Forest Area Change 2000-2020 Higher is better7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Total7 | |
| 1 | Guernsey | 82.6% |
| 2 | Bahrain | 75.2% |
| 3 | Iceland | 64.7% |
| ... | ||
| 123= | Turks & Caicos Islands | 0.0% |
| 123= | Lesotho | 0.0% |
| 123= | Anguilla | 0.0% |
| 123= | Jersey | 0.0% |
| 123= | Maldives | 0.0% |
| 123= | St Vincent & Grenadines | 0.0% |
| 123= | Isle of Man | 0.0% |
| 123= | Tokelau | 0.0% |
| Europe Avg | 8.2% | |
| World Avg | -0.1% | |
| q=234. | ||
4. Jersey's Modernity and Learning
Technology and Information Datasets:
| IPv6 Uptake Higher is better8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | 2017 Ratio8 | |
| 1 | Belgium | 55.4 |
| 2 | Germany | 41.8 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 35.1 |
| ... | ||
| 66 | Puerto Rico | 0.2 |
| 67 | Indonesia | 0.2 |
| 68 | S. Africa | 0.1 |
| 69 | Jersey | 0.1 |
| 70= | Sudan | 0.1 |
| 70= | Ukraine | 0.1 |
| 72 | Lithuania | 0.1 |
| 73 | Vanuatu | 0.1 |
| Europe Avg | 8.11 | |
| World Avg | 3.82 | |
| q=176. | ||
5. Religion and Beliefs
The CIA World Factbook states: Protestant (Anglican, Baptist, Congregational New Church, Methodist, Presbyterian), Roman Catholic9.
Links:
There isn't much information in the database for Jersey, most likely because it is either a part of another country (i.e., a territory or possession) and therefore most international statistics are counted for the country as a whole, or, this is such an exotic place that little data exists about it.
6. Tax Evasion10
#bahamas #bermuda #british_virgin_islands #cayman_islands #civilisation #crime #democracy #economics #globalism #governance #indonesia #inequality #internationalism #ireland #malta #mauritius #multinationals #netherlands #panama #tax #tax_evasion #tax_havens #USA
Jersey is a key location where the Apple hid a large portion of its epic wealth from taxmen:
“Apple decided that two of its Irish companies should, with the help of Appleby, claim tax residency in Jersey, one of the largest island shelters with strong links to the U.K. banking system, where Apple´s Irish subsidiaries already held accounts. Jersey is a crown dependency of the United Kingdom, but it makes its own laws, sets its own tax rates and is not subject to most European Union legislation, making it a popular tax haven.”
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (2020)11
“Civilisation relies upon taxation. Workforces are educated, nations are defended. The rule of law, which makes business possible, is secured through state apparatus. The roads on which logistics rely, the national infrastructure that supports electricity and food suppliers, the judicial system: it is all funded through tax. But not all people pay fair. Billionaires manage to pay just 0% to 0.5% of their wealth in tax, significantly less than all others12. The United Nations say that 46% of the world's wealth is owned by the richest 1% of the population13, and economists think somewhere between 10% and 50% of it all is held in tax havens11,14, forcing the poor to pay a much higher proportion and causing true damage to democracies and developing countries alike, generating grievances and resentment15.16
Large multinationals excel at tax evasion by exploiting holes between tax jurisdictions14, by making their accounting artificially complicated17, and by hiding profits in low-tax countries (at a rate of $1 trillion per year)18. Some of the most well-known corporate tax evaders include the tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Netflix17,19; Nike11, and, the fashion and textile industry as a whole has produced a long and terrible legacy of using modern-day slave-labour20 in low-tax special economic zones in places like Indonesia21.22
Tax havens can be found in Panama11,23, the Netherlands11,24, Malta11, the Cayman Islands11,23, Guernsey23,25, Jersey23,25, the British Virgin Islands11,25, the USA's states of Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada and South Dakota plus Puerto Rico23; the Isle of Man23, Mauritius11, Bermuda11,23, the Bahamas23, Ireland26, Luxembourg23, Macao23, Singapore23 and Switzerland23. They support the same financial schemes that also allow organized criminals, drug lords, violent gangs and terrorist groups to launder money.
The complexity of taxes, and the international flows of money, mean that it has moved beyond the ability of any government to fix the problem of tax evasion on its own27,28,29,14. Co-operation is the only possible way to collect tax from the reluctant wealthy, selfish corporations, and antisocial criminal gangs. Since the late 2010s, a multinational scheme saw banks in over 140 places begin to share banking information to catch tax cheats and "offshore tax evasion has declined by a factor of about three in less than 10 years"30 but still, the rich and powerful manage to pay less than struggling citizens30”