{"id":60345,"date":"2021-11-25T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=60345"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:35:47","slug":"the-fair-tax-mark-a-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/25\/the-fair-tax-mark-a-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fair Tax Mark &#8211; a statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note that the <a href=\"https:\/\/fairtaxmark.net\/why-get-the-mark\/criteria-and-standards\/global-multinational\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Tax Mark has published its new international standard<\/a> for appraisal of companies today.<\/p>\n<p>Many will know that the Fair Tax Mark was created by me. In that case I think it appropriate to make clear a number of things.<\/p>\n<p>First, I have now resigned from all association with the Fair Tax Mark, partly because of my concern about this international standard.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Fair Tax Foundation that runs the Fair Tax Mark has reminded me of my legal obligations not to discuss the details of this issue, and as a result I will not do so.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I do however note that none of those now managing the Fair Tax Mark on a day-to-day basis has any qualifications in or practitioner experience of accounting or taxation, let alone at an international level.<\/p>\n<p>I wish to make clear as a consequence that I am not offering any sort of endorsement for the standard that has been issued, for which I have no responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that the Fair Tax Mark has published its new international standard for appraisal of companies today. Many will know that the Fair Tax<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/25\/the-fair-tax-mark-a-statement\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-tax-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60345","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=60345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}