{"id":32948,"date":"2016-03-30T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32948"},"modified":"2016-03-30T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:11:52","slug":"hmrcs-offshore-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/30\/hmrcs-offshore-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC&#8217;s offshore helper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/business\/economics\/article4723425.ece?acs_cjd=true\" target=\"_blank\">Times has reported:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A multimillion-pound Revenue &amp; Customs publicity campaign to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance used an advertising agency ultimately controlled in an offshore haven.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC spent more than \u00a36 million on the campaigns, including \u00a3300,000 specifically on offshore evasion.\u00a0Among the agencies used was TNS, a research agency, whose ultimate parent company and controlling party is WPP, the world\u2019s biggest advertising company which is incorporated in Jersey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You couldn't make it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has reported: A multimillion-pound Revenue &amp; Customs publicity campaign to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance used an advertising agency ultimately controlled in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/30\/hmrcs-offshore-helper\/\"><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":[107,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948","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=32948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}