{"id":14112,"date":"2012-02-14T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14112"},"modified":"2012-02-14T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T08:12:10","slug":"obama-aide-suggests-we-need-a-global-minimum-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/14\/obama-aide-suggests-we-need-a-global-minimum-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama aide suggests we need a global minimum tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According t<a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/economy\/2012\/02\/13\/white-house-economic-adviser-we-need-global-minimum-tax\" target=\"_blank\">o Fox New<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gene Sperling, director of the White House's national economic council, said today at an official meeting that \"we need a global minimum tax\":<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a global minimum tax so that people have the assurance that nobody is escaping doing their fair share as part of a race to the bottom or having our tax code actually subsidized and facilitate people moving their funds to tax havens,\" Sperling said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote a mechanism to deliver such a tax about five years ago but the time did not seem right.<\/p>\n<p>I'll drag it out and dust it down again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News: Gene Sperling, director of the White House&#8217;s national economic council, said today at an official meeting that &#8220;we need a global<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/14\/obama-aide-suggests-we-need-a-global-minimum-tax\/\"><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":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","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=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}