{"id":61403,"date":"2022-02-02T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=61403"},"modified":"2022-02-02T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:03:31","slug":"the-pope-understands-the-significance-of-tax-transparency-we-just-now-need-to-get-the-worlds-governments-to-do-so-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/02\/the-pope-understands-the-significance-of-tax-transparency-we-just-now-need-to-get-the-worlds-governments-to-do-so-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope understands the significance of tax transparency: we just now need to get the world&#8217;s governments to do so as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2022-01\/pope-francis-italy-tax-authority-agenzie-entrate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke to Italian tax collectors yesterday<\/a> and had some important points to make, of which the most significant was, I think, this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.20-550x127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.20-550x127.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.20-768x177.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.20-600x139.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.20.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>I would also add this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.38-550x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.38-550x206.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.38-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.38-600x225.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-02-at-07.55.38.png 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These happen to be ideas enshrined in <a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaltransparency.net\/making-tax-work-pathways-to-enhancing-tax-transparency-and-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making Tax Work,<\/a>which I am working on with Professor Andrew Baker of the Univesity of Sheffield and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency.<\/p>\n<p>This programme addresses the issues of the purpose of tax and how tax transparency can improve the accountability of tax systems and so enhance their progressive integrity on behalf of society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>It's good to see we have someone on side. We just need the world's government's to see the significance of the issue as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope spoke to Italian tax collectors yesterday and had some important points to make, of which the most significant was, I think, this: I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/02\/02\/the-pope-understands-the-significance-of-tax-transparency-we-just-now-need-to-get-the-worlds-governments-to-do-so-as-well\/\"><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":[197,97,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-tax-work","category-tax-justice","category-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61403","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=61403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}