{"id":35204,"date":"2016-11-02T06:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=35204"},"modified":"2016-11-02T06:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:17:33","slug":"the-uks-tax-havens-demand-a-say-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/02\/the-uks-tax-havens-demand-a-say-on-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s tax havens demand a say on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was most amused to note <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/tax-havens-british-virgin-islands-brexit-negotiations-a7388946.html\" target=\"_blank\">this from the Independent:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>British-controlled tax havens have demanded to be given a central role in the Brexit negotiation process.<\/p>\n<p>Dr D. Orlando Smith, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, said overseas territories should \u201chave our voice heard\u201d as the UK leaves the EU.<\/p>\n<p>He said the controversial territories required \u201chigh level engagement\u201d in the process of the same sort as Scotland and the other devolved nations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hang on a moment! I thought these places were independent of the UK? Except when it suits them, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I would give them a say, and would\u00a0then start legislating for them to reflect the fact that they'd admitted they were part of the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>I'd \u00a0start with imposing some taxes so that they pay their way in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And would then require the \u00a0accounts and beneficial ownership of companies on public record.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by registers of trusts.<\/p>\n<p>How about that as a quid pro quo BVI?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was most amused to note this from the Independent: British-controlled tax havens have demanded to be given a central role in the Brexit negotiation<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/02\/the-uks-tax-havens-demand-a-say-on-brexit\/\"><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":[89,44,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bvi","category-europe","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204","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=35204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}