{"id":18314,"date":"2012-11-23T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18314"},"modified":"2012-11-23T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T09:19:52","slug":"osborne-needs-to-hang-his-head-in-shame-for-the-help-hes-giving-to-tax-evaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/23\/osborne-needs-to-hang-his-head-in-shame-for-the-help-hes-giving-to-tax-evaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Osborne needs to hang his head in shame for the help he&#8217;s giving to tax evaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0Tax Justice Network colleague has a typically\u00a0thoughtful\u00a0and measured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/nov\/22\/scheme-trillions-tax-havens-scuppered\" target=\"_blank\">article in the Guardian this morning<\/a> discussing how we tackle tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>Having considered many of the available options he turns to the UK - Swiss tax deal that comes into force next year, concluding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chancellor George Osborne in his budget speech in April described tax evasion and avoidance as \"morally repugnant\". But his tax deal with Switzerland, as a fiscally useless spoiler, is a tax evader's dream. This government must repudiate it\u00a0immediately. If it doesn't, Labour must commit to abolishing it \u2014 or hang\u00a0its own head in shame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to say he's right. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/nov\/22\/scheme-trillions-tax-havens-scuppered\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing to see why<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0Tax Justice Network colleague has a typically\u00a0thoughtful\u00a0and measured article in the Guardian this morning discussing how we tackle tax havens. Having considered many of the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/23\/osborne-needs-to-hang-his-head-in-shame-for-the-help-hes-giving-to-tax-evaders\/\"><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":[63,55,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314","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=18314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}