{"id":21019,"date":"2013-05-29T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21019"},"modified":"2013-05-29T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:01:05","slug":"the-oecd-admit-tax-abuse-is-creating-austerity-and-seems-to-accept-it-as-a-fait-accompli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/29\/the-oecd-admit-tax-abuse-is-creating-austerity-and-seems-to-accept-it-as-a-fait-accompli\/","title":{"rendered":"The OECD admit tax abuse is creating austerity &#8211; and seems to accept it as a fait accompli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Here&#39;s an interesting paradox. Angel Gurria, OECD boss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/may\/29\/tax-deal-signed-nine-countries#ixzz2UiG84P8i\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">said today<\/a> when talking about corporation tax that<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>taxing the \"man on the street\" wasn&#39;t economically desirable or even politically possible, so for many finance ministers the only option was \"to cut, cut, cut more, rather than have a proper balance between revenue and the expense\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Of course, what he is saying is that we are suffering austerity because we can&#39;t tax companies. Or, in the case of the UK, of course, because we won&#39;t.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time as I have also noted today the OECD has said the UK should continue with austerity.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean the OECD has really given up the fight on corporate tax abuse despite the rhetoric?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s an interesting paradox. Angel Gurria, OECD boss said today when talking about corporation tax that taxing the &#8220;man on the street&#8221; wasn&#39;t economically desirable<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/29\/the-oecd-admit-tax-abuse-is-creating-austerity-and-seems-to-accept-it-as-a-fait-accompli\/\"><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":[64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-oecd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019","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=21019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}