{"id":18510,"date":"2012-12-06T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18510"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:58:33","slug":"why-not-make-country-by-country-reporting-a-condition-of-public-contracting-its-the-only-way-to-prove-youve-paid-your-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/06\/why-not-make-country-by-country-reporting-a-condition-of-public-contracting-its-the-only-way-to-prove-youve-paid-your-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not make country-by-country reporting a condition of public contracting? It&#8217;s the only way to prove you&#8217;ve paid your tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've <a title=\"Campaigning works: the government is planning to make tax payment an issue in government procurement next year\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/06\/campaigning-works-the-government-is-planning-to-make-tax-payment-in-issue-in-government-procurement-next-year\/\">already\u00a0noted\u00a0today<\/a> that its been announced that tax\u00a0payment\u00a0is going to be built into the criteria for selection for government contracts\u00a0in future. I welcome that.<\/p>\n<p>KPMG have also noticed this, saying in a press release today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.14.50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18511\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-12-06 at 15.14.50\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.14.50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.14.50.png 1138w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.14.50-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.14.50-1024x312.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what does this \"tax transparency\" mean? It's an issue I will be discussing over coming weeks. but the simplest and clearest statement yet created on tax transparency comes from my design for\u00a0country-by-country reporting. In this the following information has to be put on public record as part of an audited set of accounts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.21.40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18512\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-12-06 at 15.21.40\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.21.40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.21.40.png 654w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-06-at-15.21.40-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do this and it's clear tax is being paid in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Anything less is sticking a finger in the air and hoping. Now, will they go for the real thing and say it's\u00a0country-by-country reporting or no contract? I\u00a0rather\u00a0hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already\u00a0noted\u00a0today that its been announced that tax\u00a0payment\u00a0is going to be built into the criteria for selection for government contracts\u00a0in future. I welcome that. KPMG<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/06\/why-not-make-country-by-country-reporting-a-condition-of-public-contracting-its-the-only-way-to-prove-youve-paid-your-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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510","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=18510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}