{"id":42009,"date":"2018-05-29T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42009"},"modified":"2018-05-29T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:49:17","slug":"richer-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/29\/richer-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Richer Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have covered this one before now, f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/may\/27\/julian-richer-crusade-expose-tax-avoiders-richer-sounds?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rom the Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A wealthy former Tory party donor is to fund a new independent tax watchdog that will pore over the opaque finances of multinational companies and individuals to expose tax avoidance. Julian Richer, who founded the hi-fi and TV specialist Richer Sounds, is bankrolling the non-profit venture Taxwatch after growing angry at the UK\u2019s increasingly \u201cbroken\u201d tax system.<\/p>\n<p>Taxwatch will involve journalists and tax professionals working together to expose abuses of the tax system in a bid to galvanise public opinion. Its advisers include\u00a0<em>Private Eye<\/em>\u00a0journalist Richard Brooks, author of\u00a0<em>The Great Tax Robbery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is early days,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cThe idea is to keep the spotlight on large-scale tax abuse, particularly in relation to big business and the wealthy. Julian Richer has provided the seed funding and we are hoping to get more people involved.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am pleased to report that Richer Sounds has a <a href=\"https:\/\/fairtaxmark.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fair Tax Mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome this move. I am not involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have covered this one before now, from the Guardian: A wealthy former Tory party donor is to fund a new independent tax watchdog<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/29\/richer-tax\/\"><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":[152,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-tax-mark","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42009","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=42009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}