{"id":19717,"date":"2013-03-19T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19717"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:19:56","slug":"the-oecd-are-promising-big-business-nothing-will-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/19\/the-oecd-are-promising-big-business-nothing-will-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The OECD are promising big business &#8211; nothing will change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rumour reaches me that Pascal St Amans of the OECD when speaking at the pro-tax haven and anti-corporation tax Oxford Centre for Business Taxation yesterday confirmed that there was no prospect of the OECD changing the rules of international taxation to replace the utterly discredited arm&#39;s length transfer pricing rules that have  permitted so much recent tax abuse and which, in the OECD&#39;s own words, threaten the integrity of the world&#39;s corporate tax systems. <\/p>\n<p>In which case it looks like the OECD wants the threat to become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>It also looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/18\/the-oecd-and-the-100-billion-it-helps-industry-hide-from-tax-authorities\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Jesse Drucker&#39;s suggestion in Bloomberg<\/a> that the OECD has been captured by large corporations to act in their interests is right.<\/p>\n<p>  And in the meantime Osborne will say tomorrow that his support for the OECD means he&#39;s tackling tax avoidance, which is and always have been a starightforward misrepresentation of the truth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour reaches me that Pascal St Amans of the OECD when speaking at the pro-tax haven and anti-corporation tax Oxford Centre for Business Taxation yesterday<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/19\/the-oecd-are-promising-big-business-nothing-will-change\/\"><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":[64,78,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-oecd","category-transfer-pricing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19717","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=19717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}