{"id":3558,"date":"2009-04-07T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/07\/the-black-list-has-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T22:06:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:06:32","slug":"the-black-list-has-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/07\/the-black-list-has-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black List has gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gather from reports (sorry for absence of links \u2014 posting in haste) that the OECD black list of tax havens had four nations on it last Thursday when announced and none are left tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I call this real progress.<\/p>\n<p>OK, these people have committed to some very low standards of information exchange, and that is all. But I call that real progress. Without that pressure they would not have done so \u2014 and Uruguay in particular is a rather nasty haven of long standing where real abuse goes on \u2014 as I highlighted in the report \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00b2Creating Turmoil&rsquo; last year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they have to follow through now \u2014 but unlike the last OECD process there are sanctions this time if they fail to do so.<\/p>\n<p>And I suspect the hurdle they are expected to meet will rise over time.<\/p>\n<p>OK, this is a small win. But don&rsquo;t doubt it \u2014 long journeys only start when the first step is made. This is such a step.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m pleased that the journey is underway. Just don&rsquo;t expect me to be quiet if it goes off course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gather from reports (sorry for absence of links \u2014 posting in haste) that the OECD black list of tax havens had four nations on<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/07\/the-black-list-has-gone\/\"><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":[83,78,80,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g20","category-oecd","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}