{"id":3200,"date":"2009-02-25T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/25\/prime-time-ireland-is-a-tax-haven\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:32:41","slug":"prime-time-ireland-is-a-tax-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/25\/prime-time-ireland-is-a-tax-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Time: Ireland is a tax haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was the message I delivered on Irish television last night.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2009\/0224\/primetime_av.html?2497148,null,230\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The message is a blunt one: Ireland chose to not regulate. It is now living with the consequences of that. They are very, very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I do blame the bankers. I do blame the accountants. But I blame the politicians too. The culture has to change. They created it.<\/p>\n<p>Will it though?<\/p>\n<p>It is the only way forward for what is, in effect, a bankrupt state. But how long will it take to appreciate that?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the message I delivered on Irish television last night. You can see it here. The message is a blunt one: Ireland chose to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/25\/prime-time-ireland-is-a-tax-haven\/\"><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":[70,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-ethics","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}