BBC accuses Sark firm of tax avoidance over supply teachers

A SARK company that employs thousands of teachers has avoided paying millions of pounds in employer's National Insurance contributions, a BBC programme has claimed.

And with the amount of national interest the story has attracted, it could have an indirect impact on Guernsey, the Treasury and Resources minister said yesterday.

'All I can say is I don't know the full details of this case, but it's up to other jurisdictions to operate a tax system in whatever way they see fit, providing the law is not broken,' he said.

Sark's Finance and Commerce Committee members Sandra Williams and Charles Maitland declined to comment on the basis that they did not know the full details of the matter.