{"id":19263,"date":"2013-02-14T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19263"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:30:37","slug":"will-the-new-rules-on-tax-avoidance-and-procurement-kick-the-big-4s-consulting-contracts-into-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/14\/will-the-new-rules-on-tax-avoidance-and-procurement-kick-the-big-4s-consulting-contracts-into-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the new rules on tax avoidance and procurement kick the Big 4&#8217;s consulting contracts into touch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/documents\/commons-vote-office\/February_2013\/14-February\/3.TREASURY-procurement-and-tax.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">announcement on tax avoidance and\u00a0government\u00a0procurement <\/a>made today\u00a0includes an interesting paragraph that says a company bidding for a contract has to disclose when bidding for a\u00a0government\u00a0contract worth more than \u00a32 million:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A failed avoidance scheme which the supplier was involved in and\u00a0which was, or should have been, notified under the Disclosure of Tax\u00a0Avoidance Scheme (DOTAS) rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we know that the Big 4\u00a0accountants\u00a0have all filed DOTAS disclosures. Some of those schemes have failed.<\/p>\n<p>Will this block them, and many big forms of lawyers as well, from\u00a0government\u00a0contracts?<\/p>\n<p>I think this the acid test for this rule.<\/p>\n<p>But I'm not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement on tax avoidance and\u00a0government\u00a0procurement made today\u00a0includes an interesting paragraph that says a company bidding for a contract has to disclose when bidding for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/14\/will-the-new-rules-on-tax-avoidance-and-procurement-kick-the-big-4s-consulting-contracts-into-touch\/\"><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":[101,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-4","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263","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=19263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}