{"id":21331,"date":"2013-06-24T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21331"},"modified":"2013-06-24T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:24:11","slug":"that-3-2-billion-form-switzerland-looks-like-banking-on-dodgy-money-or-false-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/24\/that-3-2-billion-form-switzerland-looks-like-banking-on-dodgy-money-or-false-accounting\/","title":{"rendered":"That \u00c2\u00a33.2 billion form Switzerland looks like banking on dodgy money &#8211; or false accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in <a title=\"Has the UK really got \u00a33.2 billion from the Swiss tax evasion deal? Or is the Treasury just making up the numbers, again?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/24\/has-the-uk-really-got-3-2-billion-from-the-swiss-tax-evasion-deal-or-is-the-treasury-just-making-up-the-numbers-again\/\">my last blog<\/a> the claim by the Treasury that \u00a33.2 billion has been\u00a0received\u00a0from Switzerland - which is being much trumpeted in the press, when TJN has rightly\u00a0pointed\u00a0out that no such funds have been\u00a0received.<\/p>\n<p>Now Richard Brooks has reminded me of the source of the \u00a33.2 billion claim - which comes from the 2012 Autumn Statement costings - which reported as follows, with the Office for Budget\u00a0Responsibility's\u00a0comments at the end:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-21332\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-06-24 at 16.19.38\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38.png\" width=\"564\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38.png 627w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38-191x225.png 191w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-shot-2013-06-24-at-16.19.38-112x132.png 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, this is a number with considerable uncertainty attached to it that has no\u00a0third\u00a0party verification or audit approval that has not been received but which Osborne has banked for PR purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wouldn't trust a second hand car dealer who did such things, let alone a Chancellor. The Treasury really is getting desperate when, quite candidly, it's getting as close to false accounting as this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my last blog the claim by the Treasury that \u00a33.2 billion has been\u00a0received\u00a0from Switzerland &#8211; which is being much trumpeted in the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/24\/that-3-2-billion-form-switzerland-looks-like-banking-on-dodgy-money-or-false-accounting\/\"><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":[35,107,63,55,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-hmrc","category-switzerland","category-tax-evasion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331","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=21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}