{"id":18265,"date":"2012-11-20T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2012-11-20T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:09:25","slug":"the-isle-of-man-is-committed-to-openness-and-transparency-as-long-as-it-is-done-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/20\/the-isle-of-man-is-committed-to-openness-and-transparency-as-long-as-it-is-done-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isle of Man is committed to openness and transparency, as long as it is done in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a title=\"The world\u2019s tax havens are just laughing at regulation meant to control them\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/19\/the-worlds-tax-havens-are-just-laughing-at-regulation-meant-to-control-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u00a0yesterday<\/a>\u00a0about the farce of the\u00a0tax information exchange agreements that have been signed by many tax havens \/\u00a0secrecy jurisdictions in response to OECD demands in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0tax information exchange agreements are the foundation for the claim many of these places, like the\u00a0Isle of Man, make to now be open and transparent. It's a shame that's just not true. The reality was exposed in the Tynwald, the\u00a0Isle of Man's\u00a0parliament, last month. For the record, I reproduce the report here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-09.02.44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18266\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-11-20 at 09.02.44\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-09.02.44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-09.02.44.png 551w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-09.02.44-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the Isle of Man is committed to\u00a0openness\u00a0and\u00a0transparency\u00a0as long as it is done in secret.<\/p>\n<p>What a farce.<\/p>\n<p>Until these places agree to full,\u00a0automatic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/InfoEx0609.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">information exchange<\/a> then they\u00a0will\u00a0remain the base for\u00a0tax\u00a0abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote\u00a0yesterday\u00a0about the farce of the\u00a0tax information exchange agreements that have been signed by many tax havens \/\u00a0secrecy jurisdictions in response to OECD demands in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/20\/the-isle-of-man-is-committed-to-openness-and-transparency-as-long-as-it-is-done-in-secret\/\"><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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","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=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}