{"id":18079,"date":"2012-11-07T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:19:12","slug":"pwc-says-its-not-fair-to-pick-on-business-about-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/pwc-says-its-not-fair-to-pick-on-business-about-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"PWC says &#8220;it&#8217;s not fair to pick on business about tax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've noted <a title=\"New Era at the ICAEW?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/new-era-at-the-icaew\/\">I spoke at the ICAEW's New Era<\/a> event last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwc.co.uk\/people\/mary-c-monfries\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Monfries of PWC<\/a> was also there and in her comments she made two points.<\/p>\n<p>The first was that in a democracy discussion on tax policy is fine. Extraordinarily, this sounded like a concession.<\/p>\n<p>But then she added as a second point that picking on companies or even HMRC was not fine.<\/p>\n<p>The logic of this baffled me. Apparently in a \u00a0democracy we're not allowed to criticise a major\u00a0government\u00a0agency and being critical of\u00a0those\u00a0who do not appear to be paying their fair share of taxes is not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I was left wondering whether PWC wanted those supporting fair taxation to exist in an evidence free zone or whether this was\u00a0altogether\u00a0more sinister. Either way, it was one of the few sour notes of the\u00a0evening. I think, in fairness, I was far from alone in not grasping the logic of the\u00a0suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noted I spoke at the ICAEW&#8217;s New Era event last night. Mary Monfries of PWC was also there and in her comments she made<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/07\/pwc-says-its-not-fair-to-pick-on-business-about-tax\/\"><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":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pwc","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","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=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}