{"id":24115,"date":"2014-02-20T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=24115"},"modified":"2014-02-20T05:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:17:48","slug":"the-fair-tax-mark-what-could-be-more-pro-business-that-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/20\/the-fair-tax-mark-what-could-be-more-pro-business-that-that\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fair Tax Mark: what could be more pro-business that that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/comment\/ben-chu-fair-tax-mark-is-promarket-9139928.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Chu has a neat comment in the Independent<\/a> this morning about the launch of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtaxmark.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Tax Mark<\/a>. He says:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>One of the sillier accusations which gets levelled at politicians and campaigners who draw attention to tax avoidance by multinational firms is that they are somehow \u201canti-business\u201d or \u201canti-free market\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"googleadInpage\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px;\">An eloquent response came yesterday with the rolling out of the \u201cFair Tax Mark\u201d by Ethical Consumer magazine. This is effectively a seal of approval for firms that show themselves to be transparent about their tax arrangements.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>The mark will give people the knowledge they need in order to make decisions about where to spend or invest their money.<\/p>\n<p>What could be more pro-business and pro-market than that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not much, candidly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Chu has a neat comment in the Independent this morning about the launch of the\u00a0Fair Tax Mark. He says: One of the sillier accusations<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/20\/the-fair-tax-mark-what-could-be-more-pro-business-that-that\/\"><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-24115","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\/24115","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=24115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}