{"id":34001,"date":"2016-07-08T07:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34001"},"modified":"2016-07-08T07:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:29:33","slug":"souls-are-easily-sold-once-they-have-been-in-the-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/08\/souls-are-easily-sold-once-they-have-been-in-the-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"Souls are easily sold once they have been in the Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicshome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/news\/uk\/economy\/retail-sector\/news\/76970\/ex-treasury-boss-blasted-taking-job-bank-exploiting\">reported yesterday<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir Nicholas Macpherson, who announced his departure from the Treasury in April this year, is set to take up a two-day-per-week role as chairman for C Hoare &amp; Co - a bank for wealthy individuals.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, the family-run bank - which is the oldest in the UK and the fourth oldest in the world - offers clients help netting \u201cthe best after-tax returns\u201d as part of its offshore investment management wing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they also noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tax campaigner Richard Murphy said the appointment\u00a0suggested an \"open door arrangement between the top levels of the UK civil service and the organisations that serve the financial elite\".<\/p>\n<p>He added to PoliticsHome: \u201cIt\u2019s extraordinary that the former head of the UK Treasury has now seen it\u2019s his job to undermine the UK tax base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs former head of the Treasury he should be doing all he can to uphold the standards that we are meant to be promoting in the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t appear that that is now his goal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Souls are easily sold once they have been in the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Look forward George Osborne goes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicshome reported yesterday that: Sir Nicholas Macpherson, who announced his departure from the Treasury in April this year, is set to take up a two-day-per-week<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/08\/souls-are-easily-sold-once-they-have-been-in-the-treasury\/\"><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":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001","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=34001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}