{"id":3754,"date":"2009-04-27T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/indias-politicians-agree-tax-haven-abuse-has-to-end\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T16:26:45","slug":"indias-politicians-agree-tax-haven-abuse-has-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/indias-politicians-agree-tax-haven-abuse-has-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"India&rsquo;s politicians agree: tax haven abuse has to end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/apr\/27\/world-news-in-brief\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has made an election campaign pledge to claw back more than $100bn (\u00a368bn) of cash stashed abroad by the country's wealthy. Singh promised &quot;definite steps within 100 days to recover this black money&quot; if his Congress-led government is voted back to power next month. He also said India was pushing for an international agreement to share information between tax authorities. The Washington-based Global Financial Integrity project estimates that $136.5bn of illicit money from India was stashed abroad between 2002 and 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s Congress being forced to join in on this issue because of pressure from the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>All major Indian political parties now agree this is an issue to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Full marks to GFI!<\/p>\n<p>Tax justice is spreading up the agenda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guardian: India&#8217;s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has made an election campaign pledge to claw back more than $100bn (\u00a368bn) of cash stashed abroad<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/indias-politicians-agree-tax-haven-abuse-has-to-end\/\"><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":[14,19,80,55,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-development","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","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=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}