{"id":12830,"date":"2011-11-14T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2011-11-14T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:05:02","slug":"stop-companies-supplying-the-government-using-tax-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/14\/stop-companies-supplying-the-government-using-tax-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop companies supplying the government using tax havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/2399\" target=\"_blank\">this Early Day Motion in Parliament<\/a> deserves wide support, and would chime with many people's sense of what is necessary in public procurement.<\/p>\n<p>It baffles me why such policies do not exist already:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>ETHICAL CONSUMER AND USE OF TAX HAVENS BY COMPANIES OPERATING PUBLIC SERVICES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Session:\u00a02010-12<\/li>\n<li>Date tabled:\u00a008.11.2011<\/li>\n<li>Primary sponsor:\u00a0<a id=\"ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_repeaterEdms_ctl00_ctrlEdmDetail_hplPrimarySponsor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/1568\/Lucas-Caroline\">Lucas, Caroline<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sponsors:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/5701\/Edwards-Jonathan\">Edwards, Jonathan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/3404\/George-Andrew\">George, Andrew<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/1859\/Meale-Alan\">Meale, Alan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/546\/Sanders-Adrian\">Sanders, Adrian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-12\/4556\/Weir-Mike\">Weir, Mike<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That this House congratulates Ethical Consumer for its work exposing the poor ethical record of the companies being awarded contracts to run our public services; is deeply concerned that 13 of the 20 companies surveyed avoid tax through the use of tax havens; believes that the huge scale of Government procurement, at around 200 billion a year, has the potential to have a major positive impact on the market for ethical goods and services; notes that whilst the Government has guidelines for reducing its environmental impact through operations and procurement, no such equivalent guidelines exist for wider ethical concerns; and calls on the Government to bring forward a set of legally binding procurement rules that subject companies delivering and bidding for the delivery of public service contracts to high ethical, environmental and anti-tax avoidance standards as measured against the criteria developed by Ethical Consumer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this Early Day Motion in Parliament deserves wide support, and would chime with many people&#8217;s sense of what is necessary in public procurement.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/14\/stop-companies-supplying-the-government-using-tax-havens\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}