{"id":20712,"date":"2013-05-13T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20712"},"modified":"2013-05-13T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:50:57","slug":"the-treasury-is-not-walking-its-talk-as-its-business-as-usual-for-tax-avoiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/13\/the-treasury-is-not-walking-its-talk-as-its-business-as-usual-for-tax-avoiders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Treasury is not walking its talk as it&#8217;s business as usual for tax avoiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/88340\/Discussion_document_and_draft_guidance_on_Tax_and_Procurement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">much play was made by HM Treasury<\/a> that they would bar tax avoiding companies from\u00a0public\u00a0contracts.\u00a0And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5667670c-bb11-11e2-90b4-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2T9mKIJ2Q\" target=\"_blank\">now the FT\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A company that has paid no corporation tax for eight years has won a \u00a3150m government tender to improve mobile connectivity, despite calls for it to be excluded from public sector contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Arqiva, the communications group,\u00a0said no additional pressure had been placed on its tax status, which is legal, during the year-long bidding process for the Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), run by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we see the reality of the Treasury's bluster on tax: it's business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Doers the word 'hypocrites' come to anyone's mind by any chance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year much play was made by HM Treasury that they would bar tax avoiding companies from\u00a0public\u00a0contracts.\u00a0And now the FT\u00a0reports: A company that has<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/13\/the-treasury-is-not-walking-its-talk-as-its-business-as-usual-for-tax-avoiders\/\"><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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712","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=20712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}