{"id":21172,"date":"2013-06-14T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21172"},"modified":"2013-06-14T07:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T06:12:29","slug":"bermudan-double-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/14\/bermudan-double-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermudan double speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/13\/g8-david-cameron-objectives\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bermudan premier, Craig Cannonier, said: \"I want to clarify that Bermuda is strongly committed to joining the multilateral convention on tax information sharing.<\/p>\n<p>\"Bermuda is a well regulated jurisdiction and has always been at the forefront of international efforts to fight tax evasion and aggressive\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Tax avoidance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/taxavoidance\">tax avoidance<\/a>. I am encouraged that other overseas territories are also committed to joining the convention.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That, of course, is why they're refusing to sign the OECD\u00a0Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.<\/p>\n<p>And are resisting disclosing the\u00a0beneficial\u00a0ownership of companies - a move aimed solely at\u00a0combatting money laundering, fighting tax evasion and turning tax information exchange into something meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>I think the premier has just notched up double speak to a new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guardian: The Bermudan premier, Craig Cannonier, said: &#8220;I want to clarify that Bermuda is strongly committed to joining the multilateral convention on<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/14\/bermudan-double-speak\/\"><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":[77,10,55,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bermuda","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172","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=21172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}