{"id":20488,"date":"2013-05-02T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20488"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:58:52","slug":"come-on-dave-hartnett-thats-just-not-credible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/02\/come-on-dave-hartnett-thats-just-not-credible\/","title":{"rendered":"Come on Dave Hartnett, that&#8217;s just not credible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've <a title=\"I think there\u2019s a technical term for an email like this, but I\u2019m too polite to use it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/02\/i-think-theres-a-technical-term-for-an-email-like-this-but-im-too-polite-to-use-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">just posted an email written by Dave Hartnett<\/a> disclosed this morning as part of UK Uncut's legal action against HMRC on Goldman Sachs. That says in its\u00a0conclusion\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.55.49.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20491\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-02 at 11.55.49\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.55.49.png\" width=\"765\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.55.49.png 765w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.55.49-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.55.49-200x50.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now try reconciling this with what Hartnett says i<a href=\"http:\/\/ukuncutlegalaction.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hartnett-witness-statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">n his witness statement to the hearing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20489\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-02 at 11.51.35\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35.png 499w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35-206x225.png 206w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-02-at-11.51.35-120x132.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I cannot see how these can be reconciled. The claim is just not credible. Of course reputation - Hartnett's reputation - played a part in the decision taken. He says so in his email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just posted an email written by Dave Hartnett disclosed this morning as part of UK Uncut&#8217;s legal action against HMRC on Goldman Sachs. That<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/02\/come-on-dave-hartnett-thats-just-not-credible\/\"><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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","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=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}