{"id":27833,"date":"2015-02-12T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:31:51","slug":"private-banking-laundromats-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/12\/private-banking-laundromats-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Private banking: laundromats for the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/768314fc-b112-11e4-831b-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=crm\/email\/2015212\/nbe\/Comment\/product&amp;siteedition=uk\" target=\"_blank\">FT headline this morning is interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-12-at-07.23.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27835 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-12-at-07.23.30.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 07.23.30\" width=\"510\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-12-at-07.23.30.png 510w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-12-at-07.23.30-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-12-at-07.23.30-200x52.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The admission is, of course, that what I and the Tax Justice Network have been saying for years about these banks that operate in shady places has been right.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/CreatingTurmoil.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this 2008 publication as an example<\/a>. We said back then tax havens were creating turmoil. It's fair to say we were right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This FT headline this morning is interesting: &nbsp; The admission is, of course, that what I and the Tax Justice Network have been saying for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/12\/private-banking-laundromats-for-the-rich\/\"><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":[14,32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833","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=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}