James Hollis

Research Topic

Offshore Tax Avoidance and the British State, 1894-1939

Supervisor: Dr Ben Jackson

Recent publications:

• "'These Patriots Who Misuse the Law': The Background to the United Kingdom's Anti-Tax Haven Legislation of 1936," in Tax Evasion and Tax Havens Since the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sebastien Guex and Hadrien Buclin (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 289-316
• Tax Havens, by Alain Vernay, edited and translated by James Hollis (Nottingham: Edward Ludlam, 2021)
• "The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914-1939," with Christopher McKenna, in Capitalism's Hidden Worlds, edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), 157-177
• "Union Cold Storage and the Birth of Multinational Tax Planning, 1897-1922," University of Oxford Case Studies in the Global History of Capitalism, No. 9 (2019), edited by Christopher McKenna