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STATES OF JERSEY

COMMISSIONERS OF APPEAL FOR INCOME TAX: APPOINTMENT

Lodged au Greffe on 13th May 2009

by the Minister for Treasury and Resources

STATES GREFFE

2009   Price code: A  P.70

PROPOSITION

THE STATES are asked to decide whether they are of opinion

in  accordance  with  Article  10  of  the  Income  Tax  (Jersey)  Law  1961,  as amended, to approve the appointment as Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax for a period of 3 years of –

Mr. John F. Mills C.B.E. Mr. Michael R. Lanyon Mr. Frank Dearie

MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES

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REPORT

The  Assistant  Minister  for  Treasury  and  Resources,   Deputy  Edward  Noel,  was delegated responsibility for the appointment of the Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax.

The Commissioners of Appeal hear appeals from decisions of the Comptroller of Income Tax.

Article 10 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961, as amended, requires that they be chosen from residents in the Island experienced in financial matters, who are not actively interested in any trade, business or profession carried out in the Island'. The positions were advertised in the Jersey Evening Post and the selection process was overseen by the Jersey Appointments Commission.

Frank Dearie

Mr. Dearie is shortly to retire after a career of more than 35 years in the Jersey finance industry. Most recently he has been a Private Client Director with the Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that he was the director in charge of the tax function within the Abacus Financial Services Group.

Mr. Dearie is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practioners (STEP); an Associate of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and was previously a committee member of the Jersey Taxation Society.

John F. Mills

Mr. Mills was educated at Highgate School and Oxford University and joined the U.K. civil service in 1974. He worked in a number of Departments in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong, and in between 1989 and 1992 was a Member of the Prime Minster's Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street. He was Director of Consumer Affairs, Office  of  Fair  Trading,  London  from  1992  to  1995  and  the  Chief  Executive  of Cornwall County Council from 1995 to 1999. He came to Jersey in 1999 on his appointment as Chief Executive of the Policy and Resources Committee and worked in this role until 2003. From 2003 until his retirement in 2007 he was Director of Rural Policy, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London (Defra). He now lives in St. Saviour .

He has undertaken a wide range of other roles outside his work career. He is currently acting Chairman of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and a non-executive director of the Port of London Authority. Since 1999 he has been Chairman of the Governing body of Highgate School, London.

Michael Lanyon

Mr. Lanyon left Jersey in 1962 for the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and served in the British Army for 21 years. He returned to the Island in 1984 to take up the post of Director, Jersey Airport – retiring in 2006.

He is a member of the Institute of Directors and was a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (Jersey Branch Founding Chairman).

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Vote: Adopted 15 June 2009

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