{"id":15216,"date":"2012-04-23T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:32:05","slug":"cameron-obfuscates-on-tax-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/23\/cameron-obfuscates-on-tax-avoidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron obfuscates on tax avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/today\/hi\/today\/newsid_9715000\/9715304.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen here to the BBC's John Humphry's challenging David Cameron on tax avoidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his defence was putting money into pension funds was acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>But he'd do nothing to condemn Sir Philip Green and and his tax avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>But he did say he'd avoid dealing with such people in future.<\/p>\n<p>That's some progress.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"If the Tories find tax avoidance \u2018morally repugnant\u2019 why were they the biggest party in the EU Parliament to reject measures designed to tackle it last week?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/23\/if-the-tories-find-tax-avoidance-morally-repugnant-why-were-they-the-biggest-party-in-the-eu-parliament-to-reject-measures-designed-to-tackle-it-last-week\/\">Shame his party couldn't vote for\u00a0measures\u00a0to tackle \u00a0tax avoidance in the EU last week in that case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And what a shame those like the CBI and its defenders can't say the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen here to the BBC&#8217;s John Humphry&#8217;s challenging David Cameron on tax avoidance. In his defence was putting money into pension funds was acceptable. But<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/23\/cameron-obfuscates-on-tax-avoidance\/\"><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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","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=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}