{"id":17247,"date":"2012-09-11T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T07:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2012-09-11T08:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T07:30:39","slug":"lessons-from-barclays-tax-avoidance-does-not-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/09\/11\/lessons-from-barclays-tax-avoidance-does-not-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Barclays: tax avoidance does not pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays <a title=\"Barclays admits its tax products were \u201cinappropriate\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/09\/11\/barclays-admits-its-tax-products-were-inappropriate\/\">has decided to review its sales of tax products<\/a> as \"some of them may no longer be appropriate\".<\/p>\n<p>There are lessons to be learned from this. The first is that, as Barclays has now learned to its cost, tax avoidance does not pay.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders why they paid so much to so many for so long who couldn't work that out in that case.<\/p>\n<p>But better late than never I guess.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays has decided to review its sales of tax products as &#8220;some of them may no longer be appropriate&#8221;. There are lessons to be learned<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/09\/11\/lessons-from-barclays-tax-avoidance-does-not-pay\/\"><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-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barclays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","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=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}