{"id":18413,"date":"2012-11-30T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18413"},"modified":"2012-11-30T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:49:39","slug":"aid-agencies-unite-to-demand-corporate-and-tax-haven-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/30\/aid-agencies-unite-to-demand-corporate-and-tax-haven-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid agencies unite to demand corporate and tax haven transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/2012\/nov\/29\/capital-gains-tax-reform-world?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\">letter was in the Guardian this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Guardian's investigation into offshore secrecy highlights a significant problem that is global in its impact. Developing countries lose vital resources for development through illicit capital flight, to such an extent that Africa is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. Ending financial secrecy to expose corruption and tax dodging that hurts the poorest countries is a vital step in changing this reality: and that action must be global. We need a new international agreement to end the corporate anonymity and tax haven secrecy you have revealed. The prime minister has promised action at the G8, and our organisations will be working together next year to help make this happen. We are long overdue an end to the secrecy that denies resources to those in hunger and\u00a0poverty.<br \/>\n<strong>Brendan Cox<\/strong><em>Director of policy and advocacy, Save the Children<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Christine Allen<\/strong><em>Director of policy and public affairs, Christian Aid<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Neil Thorns<\/strong><em>Director of advocacy, Cafod<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Max Lawson<\/strong><em>Head of policy and advocacy, Oxfam<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Paul Cook<\/strong><em>Advocacy director, Tearfund<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Beverley Duckworth<\/strong><em>Policy, advocacy and campaigns director, Action Aid<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Mariana Merelo Lobo<\/strong><em>Director of operations, Action Against Hunger UK<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Glen Tarman<\/strong><em>Head of policy and advocacy, Bond<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Adrian Lovett<\/strong><em>Europe executive director, One<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Sol Oyuela<\/strong><em>Senior UK political adviser, Christian Aid<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0campaign\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/CBC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">country-by-country reporting just grows, and\u00a0grows.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter was in the Guardian this morning: The Guardian&#8217;s investigation into offshore secrecy highlights a significant problem that is global in its impact. Developing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/30\/aid-agencies-unite-to-demand-corporate-and-tax-haven-transparency\/\"><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":[14,79,19,55,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-country-by-country","category-development","category-tax-evasion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","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=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}