{"id":43597,"date":"2018-11-17T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43597"},"modified":"2018-11-17T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:20:39","slug":"when-corporation-tax-abuse-is-still-so-strong-alternatives-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/17\/when-corporation-tax-abuse-is-still-so-strong-alternatives-are-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"When corporation tax abuse is still so strong alternatives are needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sandbu made an interesting comment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4cb8ace8-e743-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3?desktop=true&amp;segmentId=7c8f09b9-9b61-4fbb-9430-9208a9e233c8#myft:notification:daily-email:content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the FT<\/a> yesterday on corporation taxation. He came out strongly in favour of international reform to remove the adavantage multinational companies secure from the current system. His aim was a level playing field and to restore the right of the state. In the absence of immediate reform he concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A co-operative international reform of corporate profit taxation remains the best option. But until it can be achieved, the fallback must be an EU-level turnover tax; and until that can be achieved, the further fallback must be national-level turnover taxes. The worst, however, would be to do nothing at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This outcome is sub-optimal. But I agree it is better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion of a minimum corporation tax might be better still though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sandbu made an interesting comment in the FT yesterday on corporation taxation. He came out strongly in favour of international reform to remove the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/17\/when-corporation-tax-abuse-is-still-so-strong-alternatives-are-needed\/\"><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":[64,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597","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=43597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}