{"id":13172,"date":"2011-12-09T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T09:02:42","slug":"straightforwardly-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/09\/straightforwardly-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Straightforwardly angry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things are simply designed to induce anger. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/dec\/08\/goldman-sachs-whistleblower-threatened-sack\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian's report this morning<\/a> that\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs are seeking to sack Osita Mba, the lawyer who whistle\u00a0blew\u00a0on the Goldman Sachs deal that has torn the\u00a0credibility\u00a0of Dave Hartnett and the senior management of our tax authority apart is one such thing.<\/p>\n<p>Osita Mba has stood up for the rule of law, for accountability, for consistency, for\u00a0competence\u00a0and for the duty of the civil service.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has applauded his courage in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>And HMRC want to sack him.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0wrong\u00a0man's under\u00a0threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things are simply designed to induce anger. The Guardian&#8217;s report this morning that\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs are seeking to sack Osita Mba, the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/09\/straightforwardly-angry\/\"><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":[16,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172","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=13172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}