{"id":21675,"date":"2013-07-21T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21675"},"modified":"2013-07-21T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:59:18","slug":"cameron-and-osborne-as-two-faced-as-the-very-best-tax-avoiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/07\/21\/cameron-and-osborne-as-two-faced-as-the-very-best-tax-avoiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron and Osborne: as two-faced as the very best tax avoiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/jul\/21\/cameron-two-faced-tax-policy\" target=\"_blank\">have to agree with this comment in the Observer business leader this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the time Cameron flies to the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.g20.org\/docs\/summit\/summit_2013.html\">G20 summit in St Petersburg<\/a>\u00a0in September, he may well find Britain's approach to global tax issues \u2013 far from leading the reform agenda, as the prime minister now trumpets at every turn \u2013 has left it with very few friends on the international stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Observer points out, the patent box, the\u00a0aggressive\u00a0cutting of\u00a0corporate\u00a0tax rates and the new regime for offshore treasury functions taxed at only 5% or so and hidden within UK based\u00a0multinational corporations are all examples of aggressive tax competition from the UK that undermines any rhetoric it has to offer on tax avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron and Osborne are two faced on this issue, and the world is rumbling them. Only action to\u00a0reinforce\u00a0their failing rhetoric will now restore any credibility they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to agree with this comment in the Observer business leader this morning: By the time Cameron flies to the\u00a0G20 summit in St Petersburg\u00a0in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/07\/21\/cameron-and-osborne-as-two-faced-as-the-very-best-tax-avoiders\/\"><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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675","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=21675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}