{"id":21142,"date":"2013-06-12T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2013-06-12T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T09:47:14","slug":"big-business-blocks-tax-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/12\/big-business-blocks-tax-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Big business blocks tax transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If big business wanted to show its true colours ahead of the G8 it succeeded yesterday. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/business\/industries\/naturalresources\/article3788785.ece\" target=\"_blank\">The Time (paywall) reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Cameron is facing embarrassment at a gathering of G8 leaders after Britain\u2019s biggest oil and mining companies refused to disclose fully the payments they make to resource-rich governments.<\/p>\n<p>At a Whitehall meeting last Thursday, Government officials presented the companies, including BP, Shell, BG Group, BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Rio Tinto, with a draft compact on transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister wanted to unveil the agreement, which would have been signed jointly with non-governmental organisations campaigning on the issue, at the high-level pre-G8 summit he is hosting in London on Saturday. However, the businesses declined to go ahead with the compact and are expected instead to endorse a weaker commitment to be made by the Government on Saturday to improve transparency in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This deal was about improving\u00a0transparency\u00a0in developing countries, to assist them and beat corruption. And big\u00a0business\u00a0refused to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>If evidence was needed that in this context they think only of the 0.1%, now we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If big business wanted to show its true colours ahead of the G8 it succeeded yesterday. As The Time (paywall) reports: David Cameron is facing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/12\/big-business-blocks-tax-transparency\/\"><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":[36,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-corruption","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142","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=21142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}