{"id":18524,"date":"2012-12-07T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T08:42:39","slug":"are-there-any-corporate-good-guys-rolls-royce-is-beginning-to-look-tarnished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/07\/are-there-any-corporate-good-guys-rolls-royce-is-beginning-to-look-tarnished\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there any corporate good guys? Rolls Royce is beginning to look tarnished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/nils-pratley-on-finance\/2012\/dec\/06\/rolls-royce-bribery-claim-implications\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Pratley says in the Guardian this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It's becoming increasingly hard to spot the corporate good guys.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Rolls-Royce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/rollsroycegroup\">Rolls-Royce<\/a>, the company that gets more favourable name-checks from ministers than even John Lewis, on Thursday said it had passed information about bribery and corruption allegations among intermediaries to the Serious Fraud Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now what's the betting those transactions went through a tax haven using exactly the same structures that are used for tax avoidance? Close to 100% certain, I'd say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Nils Pratley says in the Guardian this morning: It&#8217;s becoming increasingly hard to spot the corporate good guys. Rolls-Royce, the company that gets more<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/07\/are-there-any-corporate-good-guys-rolls-royce-is-beginning-to-look-tarnished\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524","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=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}