{"id":14330,"date":"2012-02-28T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T09:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T09:12:03","slug":"youre-wrong-laura-kuennssberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/youre-wrong-laura-kuennssberg\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re wrong Laura Kuennssberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.itv.com\/news\/laurakuenssberg\/2012\/02\/a-good-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writing on the ITV web site this\u00a0morning<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0Barclays\u00a0their business\u00a0correspondent\u00a0Laura Kuenssberg says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, it makes financial sense for any business to make smart decisions about how, and where they pay their tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry Laura; that's just wrong. The duty of a company that\u00a0wants\u00a0to be a good\u00a0corporate\u00a0citizen - or even just law abiding - is to be tax compliant.\u00a0Tax compliance is seeking to pay the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the economic substance of the transactions undertaken coincides with the place and form in which they are reported for taxation purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In that case the only duty a company has is to pay the right\u00a0amount\u00a0of tax in the right place at the right time. Deciding to do\u00a0otherwise\u00a0is always tax avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>And we need a\u00a0general anti-avoidance principle to stop that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on the ITV web site this\u00a0morning\u00a0about\u00a0Barclays\u00a0their business\u00a0correspondent\u00a0Laura Kuenssberg says: Of course, it makes financial sense for any business to make smart decisions about how,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/28\/youre-wrong-laura-kuennssberg\/\"><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":[2,134,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barclays","category-gantip","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330","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=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}