{"id":19085,"date":"2013-01-31T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19085"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:20:26","slug":"money-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/31\/money-an-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Money an Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Money on an Island - The Apopalyptics\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzlvbwM4UiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics: Money on an island \u00a9 O.McEldowney\/D.Cole 2012<\/p>\n<p>You can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money safe from prying eyes<br \/>\nYou can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money out of sight<br \/>\nBet your money on it!<\/p>\n<p>Tax havens, let me name some:<br \/>\nJersey, and the Caymans<br \/>\nAnd in general British islands,<br \/>\nAnd on Europe's mainland,<br \/>\nLuxembourg and some Swiss cantons,<br \/>\nCrooks just love the City of London,<br \/>\nHush hush, mum's the word<br \/>\nLike it were full of masons or<\/p>\n<p>Delaware in the USA, man,<br \/>\nRunning money from Venezuela,<br \/>\nSometimes these places paid more,<br \/>\nThan their working neighbours<br \/>\nThey use their populations<br \/>\nAs their labour<br \/>\nThey use their infrastructures<br \/>\nAnd their education<\/p>\n<p>But services? Nah, they don't pay for them,<br \/>\nSo you can see the state they're in<br \/>\nAn honest boss pays a heavy burden but<br \/>\nNot for these corporations,<br \/>\nThese float-from-place-to-place-men,<br \/>\nWith their government mates, then<br \/>\nWho dream of when one day they<br \/>\nCan join them in tax havens!<\/p>\n<p>You can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money safe from prying eyes<br \/>\nYou can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money out of sight<br \/>\nBet your money on it!<\/p>\n<p>Tax avoiders, let me blame some<br \/>\nPetrol, trendy net search engines,<br \/>\nNews moguls, big bank conmen<br \/>\nPhone providers swap them<br \/>\nTax write-off for boys' club - trap dumb<br \/>\nAnimals with lap-dance and some<br \/>\nChampagne on a yacht attracts them<br \/>\nSo-called politicians<\/p>\n<p>Big pop stars (while artists starve)<br \/>\nBuy boats to go rave in<br \/>\nShow Hello, their kitsch locations,<br \/>\nHalf-Batcave, half-gymnasium<br \/>\nHypocrite: debt victims pay them<br \/>\nCompensation<br \/>\nDrug dealers sent to heaven<br \/>\n-----<br \/>\nSome people take cash just to survive<br \/>\nOr just to keep a small business alive or<br \/>\nTo get gifts for their loved ones<br \/>\nAh, but this is different!<br \/>\nWe're not talking about fiddling a form nor<br \/>\nTaking sixty quid's benefit fraud, no<br \/>\nWe're talking about stealing six billion<br \/>\nFrom sick children!<\/p>\n<p>And let's not mention,<br \/>\nLarge countries' tax exemptions,<br \/>\nBanks who ask no questions<br \/>\nDictators come to them from<br \/>\nCrass corruption to Paris or London,<br \/>\nNo great investment,<br \/>\nThey live but they don't pay rent<br \/>\nAnd it ain't sent back home<\/p>\n<p>When business fails, who pays for it?<br \/>\nThat's right, the taxpayers!<br \/>\nWhen business booms, who benefits?<br \/>\nThat's right, they just take it!<br \/>\nWhat without even paying,<br \/>\nA small percentage, a small donation?<br \/>\nFor all the help we gave them?<br \/>\nNope, that's tax havens!<\/p>\n<p>You can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money safe from prying eyes<br \/>\nYou can keep your money on an island<br \/>\nYou can keep your money out of sight<br \/>\nBet your money on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations Lyrics: Money on an island \u00a9 O.McEldowney\/D.Cole 2012 You can keep your money on an island You can<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/31\/money-an-island\/\"><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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085","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=19085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}