Safe Haven

And yet another story from today’s Observer – this time about a row that appears to have erupted over the Isle of Man and its status as a tax haven. As a native of the island, I can’t say that I’m totally surprised that perchance in some instances tax avoidance has shaded into tax evasion. Nonetheless, what really caught my eye were a couple of elementary mistakes in the article in the opening two paragraphs.

 

The story refers to the population of the island as being 26,000. Erm, what happened to the other 54,000 people then? Have they all just disappeared? And then in the second paragraph, the Common Purse Agreement is referred to as the Common Pure Agreement. Sloppy.