{"id":33898,"date":"2016-06-29T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33898"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:21:10","slug":"we-got-so-close-to-country-by-country-reporting-in-the-uk-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/29\/we-got-so-close-to-country-by-country-reporting-in-the-uk-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"We got so close to country-by-country reporting in the UK yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/commons\/2016-06-28\/debates\/16062850000001\/FinanceBill\">following amendment to the Finance Bill<\/a> was put to the House of Commons yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/29\/we-got-so-close-to-country-by-country-reporting-in-the-uk-yesterday\/screen-shot-2016-06-29-at-10-15-31\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-550x323.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-29 at 10.15.31\" width=\"550\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-550x323.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-511x300.png 511w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31-200x118.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-29-at-10.15.31.png 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amendment would have put the\u00a0country-by-country reporting of the UK's largest\u00a0multinational corporations on public record.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the vote was very close indeed. But the government opposed the transparency that would have ensured those largest\u00a0companies using tax havens would be exposed for what they do.<\/p>\n<p>I thank Caroline Flint and those from across almost all parties - the Conservatives included - who did support this amendment that would have delivered something\u00a0this country so badly needs,<\/p>\n<p>Some day we will get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following amendment to the Finance Bill was put to the House of Commons yesterday: The amendment would have put the\u00a0country-by-country reporting of the UK&#8217;s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/29\/we-got-so-close-to-country-by-country-reporting-in-the-uk-yesterday\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898","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=33898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}