{"id":13479,"date":"2012-01-06T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T09:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2012-01-06T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T09:42:41","slug":"petition-the-uk-prime-minister-about-the-great-british-tax-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/06\/petition-the-uk-prime-minister-about-the-great-british-tax-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition the UK Prime Minister about the Great British Tax Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/index.php\">Avaaz<\/a>\u00a0is running the following petition which they aim to present to Prime Minister David Cameron next week. Sign up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/goldman_sachs_pay_your_tax\/\">here<\/a>, and please, please pass the link on to your friends and colleagues: our politicians are very sensitive on this issue and petitions make a huge difference both in terms of generating pressure and raising public awareness.<\/p>\n<p>+++++++<\/p>\n<p>The Great British Tax Scandal<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<strong>tax chief had secret lunches with Vodafone and Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0and then handed them billions in tax breaks \u2014 while keeping Parliament in the dark!<\/p>\n<p>MPs are outraged, claiming\u00a0<strong>we are owed over 25 billion pounds in back taxes from these and similar dodgy deals.<\/strong>\u00a0But the tax agency has blocked an inquiry into the scandal and refuses to release documents to shed light on why these tax breaks were ordered in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>By acting together now we can ensure full transparency on the Goldman Sachs and Vodafone deals, and get them to pay the tax they owe. Let\u2019s turn up the heat --\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/goldman_sachs_pay_your_tax\/\">sign the petition to David Cameron for tax justice<\/a>\u00a0-- we\u2019ll deliver it with a splash next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avaaz\u00a0is running the following petition which they aim to present to Prime Minister David Cameron next week. Sign up\u00a0here, and please, please pass the link<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/06\/petition-the-uk-prime-minister-about-the-great-british-tax-scandal\/\"><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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","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=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}