Barclays appears to have been insensitive to changing political and public expectations around tax and to the UK regulators\u2019 expectations\u00a0on openness and compliance with the spirit of the rules. In the view of many, this \u00a0\u00a0reflected a failure more generally to recognise its responsibility, as a major UK\u00a0institution, to show leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That looks like something very close to whitewash on such a sensitive issue.<\/p>\n
I think we'll fairly call that an inconsequential whitewash.<\/p>\n
These people really don't get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I never expected an internally appointed review of Barclays to\u00a0greatly\u00a0rock the boat, and the Salz review doesn’t. This is all it concludes on tax: Barclays
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