{"id":20288,"date":"2013-04-25T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2013-04-25T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:48:12","slug":"if-cameron-is-serious-about-corporate-fraud-then-he-has-to-start-at-home-where-the-uk-company-registry-is-dire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/25\/if-cameron-is-serious-about-corporate-fraud-then-he-has-to-start-at-home-where-the-uk-company-registry-is-dire\/","title":{"rendered":"If Cameron is serious about corporate fraud then he has to start at home &#8211; where the UK company registry is dire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/47dff508-ad03-11e2-9454-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2RS1o2BIO\" target=\"_blank\">to the FT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Cameron on Wednesday urged European leaders to be in the vanguard of a global effort to crack down on aggressive tax avoidance and evasion, as he tries to build momentum before the G8 summit in Northern Ireland in June.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Cameron called on governments to \u201cbreak through the walls of corporate secrecy\u201d by making information on the beneficial ownership of companies available in public registries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lack of knowledge about who ultimately controls, owns and profits from companies leads to aggressive tax avoidance, tax evasion and money laundering, undermining tax bases and fuelling corruption across the world,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could not agree more, but the isue starts at home Mr Cameron. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/500000Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">As my\u00a0research\u00a0has shown<\/a>, the UK company register is not just badly managed, it's an open\u00a0opportunity\u00a0for tax fraud. If Cameron was serious he'd be investing heavily in Companies House. Instead it has had 25% staff cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the FT: David Cameron on Wednesday urged European leaders to be in the vanguard of a global effort to crack down on aggressive<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/25\/if-cameron-is-serious-about-corporate-fraud-then-he-has-to-start-at-home-where-the-uk-company-registry-is-dire\/\"><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":[138,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies-house","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","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=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}