{"id":23914,"date":"2014-02-03T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23914"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T08:16:09","slug":"does-campaigning-for-fair-tax-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/03\/does-campaigning-for-fair-tax-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Does campaigning for Fair Tax make a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm often asked whether campaigning for fair tax can make a difference. I believe it does. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/feb\/02\/amazon-queried-on-ethics-by-fund-manager\" target=\"_blank\">is some small evidence form the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A leading City fund manager considered pulling an investment in Amazon from its ethical funds because of the online seller's\u00a0tax avoidance\u00a0measures and its employment conditions for its staff around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), which bought Co-operative Asset Management last year, revealed it had written to the online retailer demanding clarity on its tax levels and where its tax was paid around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would this have happened without tax campaigning? No, of course not.<\/p>\n<p>It's not much, but it's an indication of change. That's progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often asked whether campaigning for fair tax can make a difference. I believe it does. This is some small evidence form the Guardian: A<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/03\/does-campaigning-for-fair-tax-make-a-difference\/\"><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-23914","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\/23914","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=23914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}