{"id":3521,"date":"2009-04-01T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/01\/dont-tell-me-large-companies-dont-tax-evade\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:05:36","slug":"dont-tell-me-large-companies-dont-tax-evade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/01\/dont-tell-me-large-companies-dont-tax-evade\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t tell me large companies don&rsquo;t tax evade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/adidas-and-michelin-in-taxhaven-fraud-inquiry-1658974.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a move that appeared to be timed to coincide with pressure by President Nicolas Sarkozy for a G20 agreement on curbs for offshore tax havens, the French government has demanded tax fraud investigations into bank accounts allegedly held in Liechtenstein by Michelin, Total and Adidas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They were apparently on the Liechtenstein list.<\/p>\n<p>They deny it all.<\/p>\n<p>They always do.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&rsquo;t mean they don&rsquo;t do it. <\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s why tax havens must go. And why the G20 starting this process is so important. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Independent: In a move that appeared to be timed to coincide with pressure by President Nicolas Sarkozy for a G20 agreement on curbs<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/01\/dont-tell-me-large-companies-dont-tax-evade\/\"><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":[14,83,61,55],"tags":[92,90],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-g20","category-liechtenstein","category-tax-evasion","tag-londonsummit2009","tag-whitebandradar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","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=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}