{"id":14315,"date":"2012-02-28T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2012-02-28T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:33:13","slug":"why-didnt-the-government-name-barclays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/why-didnt-the-government-name-barclays\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t the government name Barclays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0government\u00a0signed a Code of Conduct with banks on their tax practices in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/aa810760-6173-11e1-94fa-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1nV1a25br?ftcamp=crm\/email\/2012227\/nbe\/ExclusiveComment\/product\" target=\"_blank\">we learned Barclays has resoundingly<\/a> ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>But why did the\u00a0government\u00a0refuse to say they'd broken it? There was a deal, signed as a matter of honour. Barclays broke it and the\u00a0government\u00a0did not name them.<\/p>\n<p>Why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0government\u00a0signed a Code of Conduct with banks on their tax practices in November 2010. Yesterday we learned Barclays has resoundingly ignored it. But why did<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/why-didnt-the-government-name-barclays\/\"><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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barclays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","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=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}