How the Isle of Man became a tax haven

Phil Craine of Taxwatch in the Isle of Man explains how the crown dependency shifted from an economy based on farming and tourism to offshore finance. He says the rise of the European package holiday in the 1960s was a spur for the island off the UK mainland to diversify into financial engineering  
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