{"id":53514,"date":"2020-10-19T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=53514"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:40:09","slug":"just-19-of-businesses-shun-the-use-of-tax-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/19\/just-19-of-businesses-shun-the-use-of-tax-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 19% of businesses shun the use of tax havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up from the Fair Tax Mark, and I think it worth sharing. The information comes from this year's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitc.org.uk\/report\/2019-20-responsible-business-tracker-insights-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business In The Community Insights Report<\/a>, admittedly published a few months ago now, but still relevant.<\/p>\n<p>As they note:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-550x129.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-550x129.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-768x180.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-1536x359.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-2048x479.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.24-600x140.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then they note:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-550x615.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-550x615.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-768x859.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-1373x1536.png 1373w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-1831x2048.png 1831w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-19-at-07.31.04-358x400.png 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Less than a fifth of companies have a tax policy that explicitly shuns tax haven use, which is a good sign of the number who will also be shunning tax avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>The only fair thing to say is tat business has a very long way to go before it can be considered ethical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up from the Fair Tax Mark, and I think it worth sharing. The information comes from this year&#8217;s Business In The Community<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/19\/just-19-of-businesses-shun-the-use-of-tax-havens\/\"><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":[64,16,10,32,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-ethics","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514","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=53514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}