{"id":16257,"date":"2012-07-03T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T08:55:22","slug":"you-couldnt-make-it-up-new-chair-of-hmrc-is-former-kpmg-senior-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/03\/you-couldnt-make-it-up-new-chair-of-hmrc-is-former-kpmg-senior-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"You couldn&#8217;t make it up &#8211; new chair of HMRC is former KPMG senior partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> After the scandals surrounding HMRC during the Hartnett era you'd think a new culture was needed in the organisation. One that was strongly pro-tax, against abuse and tax avoidance and that indicated a new, straight talking, down the line approach to big business with not a hint of cosiness or chumminess attached.<\/p>\n<p>So who has just been appointed as the new chair of HMRC? Ian Barlow. <\/p>\n<p>Who's he, I hear you say.<\/p>\n<p>He's the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/governance\/non-exec.htm\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">former senior partner of KPMG, London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that's the KPMG present in every major tax haven in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The KPMG who signed off a bank's accounts astrue and fair in 2008 knowing it was bust, as they admitted to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>The KPMG who were fined $455 million in US a few years back for selling abusive tax schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The KPMG who along with other such firms likes to sell \"effective supply chain management services\" - oherwise known as shifting profit into tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn't make it up. <\/p>\n<p> So much for a culture change. Under the Tories it's still jobs for the boys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the scandals surrounding HMRC during the Hartnett era you&#8217;d think a new culture was needed in the organisation. One that was strongly pro-tax, against<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/03\/you-couldnt-make-it-up-new-chair-of-hmrc-is-former-kpmg-senior-partner\/\"><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":[16,107,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-hmrc","category-kpmg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","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=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}