{"id":19364,"date":"2013-03-01T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19364"},"modified":"2013-03-01T06:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:29:50","slug":"now-grant-thornton-come-out-in-favour-of-channel-islands-tax-haven-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/01\/now-grant-thornton-come-out-in-favour-of-channel-islands-tax-haven-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Grant Thornton come out in favour of Channel Islands&#8217; tax haven abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was <a title=\"KPMG makes clear it\u2019s a true friend of tax haven abuse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/23\/kpmg-makes-clear-its-a-true-friend-of-tax-haven-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">KPMG who were shouting that the Channel\u00a0Islands<\/a>\u00a0that Jersey and Guernsey should not cooperate with the UK on tax issues.<\/p>\n<p>This week it is Grant\u00a0Thornton. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/business\/2013\/02\/28\/jersey-%E2%80%98should-say-no-to-the-uk-over-tax-disclosure-deal%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Evening Post reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A LEADING financial professional has urged the States to tell the UK that Jersey has had enough of what has become a \u2018one way relationship\u2019 and refuse to sign up to a tax disclosure deal.<\/p>\n<p>John Shenton of Grant Thornton says that Jersey and Guernsey need to \u2018stand firm\u2019 and reject a tax deal with the UK like the one the Isle of Man agreed to last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By their words shall we know them. And on this issue it is clear that these\u00a0accountants\u00a0are\u00a0supporting\u00a0the opacity that permits tax abuse in all its forms.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder we call them <a href=\"http:\/\/taxjustice.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/09\/pinstripe-mafia.html\" target=\"_blank\">the pinstripe mafia.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was KPMG who were shouting that the Channel\u00a0Islands\u00a0that Jersey and Guernsey should not cooperate with the UK on tax issues. This week<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/01\/now-grant-thornton-come-out-in-favour-of-channel-islands-tax-haven-abuse\/\"><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":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guernsey","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364","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=19364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}