{"id":28245,"date":"2015-03-13T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2015-03-14T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T08:05:21","slug":"beating-european-tax-abuse-the-oxfam-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/13\/beating-european-tax-abuse-the-oxfam-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating European tax abuse the Oxfam way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam has published its precipitous for beating tax abuse in Europe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/13\/beating-european-tax-abuse-the-oxfam-way\/oxfam-eu-pulling-the-plug-tax-note-march-2015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28248\">They say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oxfam is calling upon the European institutions, especially the European Commission in its two tax-related proposals for 2015, to:<\/p>\n<p>1. Support the creation of a UN inter-governmental body on tax cooperation, by calling for a Ministerial roundtable on tax during the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>2. Increase corporate tax transparency by adopting public country by country reporting rules for large companies in all sectors, to build on what has been decided for the European banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>3. Increase corporate tax harmonisation in Europe by ensuring a compulsory common consolidated corporate tax base in all 28 countries, which makes certain that taxes are paid where profits and real economic value is created.<\/p>\n<p>4. Analyse the negative impacts one member state\u2019s tax system can have on other European and developing countries, and provide public recommendations for change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am more than happy to support those calls.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I do occassionally work for Oxfam, but not on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam has published its precipitous for beating tax abuse in Europe. They say: Oxfam is calling upon the European institutions, especially the European Commission in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/13\/beating-european-tax-abuse-the-oxfam-way\/\"><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":[79,19,44,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country","category-development","category-europe","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245","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=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}