{"id":3541,"date":"2009-04-03T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/03\/there-is-room-for-manoeuvre\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T06:01:30","slug":"there-is-room-for-manoeuvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/03\/there-is-room-for-manoeuvre\/","title":{"rendered":"There is room for manoeuvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/b75c6726-1fbe-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">the FT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to the account, which has since been confirmed by non-US officials, Mr Obama got the two leaders to agree that the G20 would &ldquo;take note&rdquo; of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development list of rogue offshore tax havens rather than &ldquo;endorse&rdquo; that list. This allowed the Chinese to save face, since they do not belong to the 30-member Paris-based OECD. And it allowed Mr Sarkozy to be able to claim back home that he had chalked up a blow against old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon capitalism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what I think is the reality: that the G20 has noted but not endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>The importance is high: there is scope for the G20 to change this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from the FT: According to the account, which has since been confirmed by non-US officials, Mr Obama got the two leaders to agree that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/03\/there-is-room-for-manoeuvre\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","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=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}