{"id":13031,"date":"2011-11-28T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13031"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:07:35","slug":"eu-threatens-to-sue-uk-over-rogue-tax-deal-negotiated-by-dave-hartnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/28\/eu-threatens-to-sue-uk-over-rogue-tax-deal-negotiated-by-dave-hartnett\/","title":{"rendered":"EU threatens to sue UK over rogue tax deal negotiated by Dave Hartnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/ee03ee36-1884-11e1-b16b-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1f0MilU5K\" target=\"_blank\">the FT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brussels is threatening to sue Britain unless ministers significantly alter\u00a0<a title=\"Swiss tax deal to raise UK revenue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/df9d4d9e-ce6d-11e0-b755-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1eqSozUZU\">a landmark tax deal with Switzerland<\/a>, in a dispute that will cast doubt over the \u00a34bn to \u00a37bn of expected proceeds for the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission lawyers concluded that the bilateral deal, which recovers billions of unpaid taxes in return for protecting the prized secrecy of the Swiss banking system, is in breach of European Union laws that are tougher on tax evasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can I say except I and the\u00a0Tax Justice Network told you so, often?<\/p>\n<p>It really is time people like the Treasury listened to us more often. We've invariably been right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT reports: Brussels is threatening to sue Britain unless ministers significantly alter\u00a0a landmark tax deal with Switzerland, in a dispute that will cast<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/28\/eu-threatens-to-sue-uk-over-rogue-tax-deal-negotiated-by-dave-hartnett\/\"><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":[107,63,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-switzerland","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031","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=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}