I have already noted this morning that 17 NHOs have combined to call on the government to introduce a Tax Dodging Bill within 100 days of the parliament to be formed after the election on May 7 first sitting.
It would, of course, be all too easy for such a call to be dismissed as pre NGO activity, but it is not. The companies that pioneered the Fair Tax Mark have joined the call. As Paul Monaghan of the Fair Tax Mark has said this morning:
Midcounties Co-operative, Unity Trust Bank, Co-operative Energy and the Phone Co-op have all come out in support of the Tax Dodging Bill campaign principles and the need for the UK to tighten up regulation to ensure that business can less easily avoid paying their fair share of tax here and in the developing world. As Fair Tax Mark certified enterprises they are all publicly committed to paying the right amount of tax in the right place at the right time — however, they recognise that some other businesses are not. Alongside progressive trade bodies Co-operatives UK and Social Enterprise UK, they call on the next Government to give serious consideration to the provisions of this Bill and stamp out aggressive, artificial tax avoidance.
I am pleased to work alongside such progressive organisations as a director of the Fair Tax Mark.
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Do you know where I can find a copy of the Bill, or of the policy document that ActionAid refer to in their FAQs?
Now on the blog – juts linked
They were slow to get it up
I was frustrated too
Thanks. Interesting read.
A bit of a shame it’s all so high-level, rather than coming up with detailed proposals, but I suppose a paper aimed at the general public is unlikely to have much technical crunch to it.
I don’t suppose you know if there is actually a draft bill somewhere? Or a detailed proposal, at least: I imagine that drafting a bill isn’t really something an organisation without access to the Parliamentary Draughtsman would want to do.
There is no draft bill
I admit I would have written one
I have before but it’s not most people’s hobby
How many companies have now signed up to the Fair Tax Mark?
Is it hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
Out of the 3,000,000+ active companies registered at Companies House.
I would have thought it a powerful incentive to other companies to sign up if they knew how many already had.
Not yet 50
But the pipe line is growing quite fast
Is that 50 who’ve received the mark, or 50 who are in the process?
I was googling the other day (after seeing Twitter ads for the competition to get the mark for free) wondering how many businesses there are out there that have it; but apart from the pioneers, SSE and Go-Ahead it’s hard to find any.
Well quiet a number more are mentioned on this blog this morning
And on its web site
You did not try very hard
What, when I looked a week or two ago I should have been able to find a blog post you made this morning? 🙂
You did make the comment this morning
I don’t understand why there isn’t a FULL list of companies which have the Fair Tax mark available on the Fair Tax Mark website.
After all the whole point of getting it is that people know about it. What would be the point of getting the Mark and keeping it a secret?
And where would people who think this is important first go to find out which companies they should look favourably upon? Obviously the Fair Tax Mark website itself.
Why isn’t there such a list?
I thought there was meant to be
I will ask
@ Richard: yes, I made the comment this morning to say that I was looking “the other day” 🙂