{"id":36755,"date":"2017-04-01T07:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36755"},"modified":"2017-04-01T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:31:44","slug":"googles-tax-and-the-question-it-poses-for-hmrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/01\/googles-tax-and-the-question-it-poses-for-hmrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s tax and the question it poses for HMRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on ITN's main news last night discussing Google's tax - which still appears to be way below any reasonable expectation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2017-03-31\/google-accused-of-being-less-than-transparent-after-revealing-latest-uk-tax-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\">story was covered on their web site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is a simple one: why is HMRC apparently happy with collecting maybe \u00a3100 million less than might reasonably be due? I'm not blaming Google. I am blaming HMRC and its political bosses for what still looks to be an unlevel playing field in UK business taxation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on ITN&#8217;s main news last night discussing Google&#8217;s tax &#8211; which still appears to be way below any reasonable expectation. The story was<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/01\/googles-tax-and-the-question-it-poses-for-hmrc\/\"><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":[64,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755","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=36755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}