{"id":21360,"date":"2013-06-26T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21360"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T07:49:14","slug":"sainsburys-need-to-walk-the-talk-on-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/26\/sainsburys-need-to-walk-the-talk-on-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury&#8217;s need to walk the talk on tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/jun\/25\/sainsburys-boss-justin-king-corporation-tax-moral\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian\u00a0notes this\u00a0morning<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sainsbury's chief executive,\u00a0Justin King, has challenged senior business leaders and fellow retailers over the UK corporation tax furore by arguing that the issue is a question of morality, not\u00a0legality.<\/p>\n<p>He criticised companies that argued they paid enough tax legally and said there was no moral high ground in making such statements. The boss of the UK's third-biggest supermarket also warned that companies with aggressive tax arrangements faced a boycott from consumers who view tax from an ethical standpoint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He's right, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtaxmark.net\/companies\/j-sainsbury-plc\/\" target=\"_blank\">why in that case has his group got nine tax haven subsidiaries<\/a> about which they choose to say remarkably little?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0notes this\u00a0morning\u00a0that: Sainsbury&#8217;s chief executive,\u00a0Justin King, has challenged senior business leaders and fellow retailers over the UK corporation tax furore by arguing that the issue<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/26\/sainsburys-need-to-walk-the-talk-on-tax\/\"><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":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-tax-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360","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=21360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}