{"id":45651,"date":"2019-07-18T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45651"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:14:21","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changin-for-minimum-corporation-tax-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/18\/the-times-they-are-a-changin-for-minimum-corporation-tax-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"The times, they are a-changin&#8217; for minimum corporation tax rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b74e8398-a944-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has just reported that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As expected, the G7 also agreed [today] on the principle of a global minimum corporate tax rate to ensure that big multinationals did not divert their profits to tax havens or low-tax jurisdictions and deprive countries where they do their business of much-needed tax revenues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This does not mean it will happen, but it's a big step forward. I wrote on this issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/09\/30\/time-for-an-alternative-minimum-corporation-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2016<\/a> when it was still very unusual to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I first wrote about it in 2007 when tax justice campaigners begged me not to publish it, and I did not. It was just too radical, even for them, at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The times, they are a-changin'.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has just reported that: As expected, the G7 also agreed [today] on the principle of a global minimum corporate tax rate to ensure<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/18\/the-times-they-are-a-changin-for-minimum-corporation-tax-rates\/\"><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":[64,10,32,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45651","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=45651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}