{"id":20367,"date":"2013-04-29T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:51:45","slug":"20367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/29\/20367\/","title":{"rendered":"The FT&#8217;s finally caught on to the fact that the Netherlands is a tax haven: better late than never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I co-authored a report with two Dutch\u00a0colleagues. The <a href=\"http:\/\/somo.nl\/publications-en\/Publication_1397\" target=\"_blank\">message of the report was pretty clear from the cover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20368\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-04-29 at 09.42.15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15-750x1024.png\" width=\"525\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15-750x1024.png 750w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15-164x225.png 164w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15-96x132.png 96w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15.png 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-09.42.15.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a>The report was a big hit, in the Netherlands. It was discussed in the Dutch parliament, was a shock to many as it was just about the first time such a thing was said by a Dutch NGO, and has led to ongoing debate continuing to the present.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5a9f0780-a6bc-11e2-885b-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2Rq8U2gkH\" target=\"_blank\">morning the FT says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0Netherlands\u00a0has 23,000 ...\u00a0\u201cletterbox companies\u201d, managed by 176 licensed trust firms. These companies attract huge flows of money, making \u00e2\u201a\u00ac8tn worth of transactions in 2011 \u2014 13 times the country\u2019s gross domestic product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They conclude that the Netherlands is now embroiled in political debate on this issue. It's good to see the FT is catching up, at last.<\/p>\n<p>Even better to see\u00a0agreement\u00a0across\u00a0the\u00a0political\u00a0left in the Netherlands that this now needs to be tackled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I co-authored a report with two Dutch\u00a0colleagues. The message of the report was pretty clear from the cover: The report was a big<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/29\/20367\/\"><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":[31,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands","category-tax-havens","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367","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=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}