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This week:
Getting Away With It All
It has been called Bermuda without the sun, the Bahamas without the Mafia. The Channel island of Guernsey, a rock in the middle of the English Channel, is not exactly sun-kissed, but it does have a climate favourable for tomatoes, tourists - and tax; an island where the Chancellor does not surface annually with new implements to make the pips squeak; where the tax rate is steady - a modest 20 per cent.
Unlike neighbouring Jersey, Guernsey does not have a quota system and income regulations for its immigrants. But there is one small hurdle: only certain houses in what is called ' the open market' can be bought by would-be emigres. They are few and bieathtakingly expensive.
Jeremy James has been talking to those who bought relief from taxes; about the morality of going; the cost of tearing up roots and trying to buy peace of mind.
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM Editor ADAM CLAPBAM

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Jeremy James
Producer:
Harry Weisbloom
Editor:
Adam Clapbam

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