{"id":35398,"date":"2016-11-19T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=35398"},"modified":"2016-11-19T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T10:26:56","slug":"crowdsourcing-request-we-are-not-a-tax-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/19\/crowdsourcing-request-we-are-not-a-tax-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing request: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are not a tax haven!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-18924\" class=\"blog-post post-18924 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-od4tj category-blog category-tax-havens-faq tag-od4tj tag-wanath tag-tax-haven tag-tax-havenry\"><em>The following post is reproduced from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/2016\/11\/18\/crowdsourcing-not-tax-haven\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Justice Network blog<\/a>, with permission:<\/em><\/article>\n<article class=\"blog-post post-18924 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-od4tj category-blog category-tax-havens-faq tag-od4tj tag-wanath tag-tax-haven tag-tax-havenry\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"blog-post post-18924 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-od4tj category-blog category-tax-havens-faq tag-od4tj tag-wanath tag-tax-haven tag-tax-havenry\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"blog-post post-18924 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-od4tj category-blog category-tax-havens-faq tag-od4tj tag-wanath tag-tax-haven tag-tax-havenry\">Over the years, we\u2019ve chronicled the tax haven denial of many secrecy jurisdictions, even building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/2014\/03\/14\/tax-haven\/\">partial list<\/a> of those who have publicly claimed \u201cWe are not a tax haven!\u201d Now, at the prompting of tax twitter (notably <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryCosg\">Mary Cosgrove<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoongJohnston\">Stephanie Johnston<\/a>, with honourable mentions to Aisling Donoghue, Toby Quantrill and Richard Smith), we thought we\u2019d have a go at crowdsourcing a more full listing.This is being done as part of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/datafortaxjustice.net\/\">Open Data for Tax Justice<\/a> project which TJN and our partners at <a href=\"http:\/\/okfn.org\/\">Open Knowledge International<\/a> have set up with Omidyar Network support, to which new members are always welcome (our major focus at the moment is on the creation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/2016\/10\/28\/creating-open-cbcr-database\/\">public database of country-by-country reporting<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 on which your views are sought).<span id=\"more-18924\"><\/span>Here\u2019s the one minute version of why tax haven denials may be useful information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hrY70OU1e_E?start=3002&amp;end=3051\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Update: Jonathan Gray suggests two helpful resources: the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%22not%20a%20tax%20haven%22\">twitter feed<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22not+a+tax+haven%22&amp;t=hr&amp;ia=web\">search results<\/a>, for \u201cnot a tax haven\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re up for getting involved, great! Here\u2019s a form where anyone can submit details of any claims of #WANATH (\u201cWe\u2019re not a tax haven\u201d). We\u2019ll collate the responses and then publish a full list, perhaps even knock up a world map if there\u2019s enough data to be meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for your help, and for circulating this far and wide. You can also find the form at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/qHRskesmvryYluTj2\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/qHRskesmvryYluTj2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdTotNXIqONIt8izhqyx0j4wXKs6k9IoifGMm6zE3JB39jIlQ\/viewform?embedded=true#responses\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"respond\" class=\"comment-respond\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following post is reproduced from the Tax Justice Network blog, with permission: Over the years, we\u2019ve chronicled the tax haven denial of many secrecy<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/19\/crowdsourcing-request-we-are-not-a-tax-haven\/\"><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":[80,32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398","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=35398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}