{"id":21089,"date":"2013-06-06T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21089"},"modified":"2013-06-06T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T07:45:28","slug":"voluntary-country-by-country-reporting-is-about-as-useful-as-a-chocolate-screwdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/06\/voluntary-country-by-country-reporting-is-about-as-useful-as-a-chocolate-screwdriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary country-by-country reporting is about as useful as a chocolate screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Owens, long-running head of tax at the OECD till last year, and Mick Moore, director of the International Centre for Tax and Development at the University of Sussex have put forward a joint 10 point plan for tax ahead of the G8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaltaxreview.com\/Article\/3209137\/Latest-News\/EXCLUSIVE-Transparency-trade-and-tax-a-G8-action-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amongst\u00a0its\u00a0suggestions\u00a0are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-06-at-08.41.00.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21090\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-06-06 at 08.41.00\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-06-at-08.41.00.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-06-at-08.41.00.png 614w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-06-at-08.41.00-300x27.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-06-at-08.41.00-200x18.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I'm sorry, but voluntary\u00a0country-by-country reporting is about as useful as a chocolate screwdriver. Any country we're really interested in - like a tax haven - will be deemed \"immaterial\" by the company if this is voluntary and so won't be disclosed. This then will just be a PR exercise delivering nothing of\u00a0benefit\u00a0to\u00a0anyone, except PR for big business.<\/p>\n<p>I'm sorry that Mick Moore has lent his name to such an idea: it really does not help progress on this issue - where the EU is\u00a0already\u00a0showing the willing to legislate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Owens, long-running head of tax at the OECD till last year, and Mick Moore, director of the International Centre for Tax and Development at<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/06\/voluntary-country-by-country-reporting-is-about-as-useful-as-a-chocolate-screwdriver\/\"><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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089","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=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}