{"id":62885,"date":"2022-05-10T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=62885"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:15:40","slug":"how-to-beat-tax-cheating-oligarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/10\/how-to-beat-tax-cheating-oligarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to beat tax cheating oligarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid and evade tax and hide funds from view. These were the notes I supplied in advance of my talk to assist the translators. I( guessed correctly that other presenters would go for detail so I did a bit more theory. The notes broadly summarises my opening presentation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-550x850.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-550x850.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38-259x400.png 259w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.38.png 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-550x865.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-550x865.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-768x1208.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-977x1536.png 977w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48-254x400.png 254w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.48.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-550x847.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-550x847.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-768x1182.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-998x1536.png 998w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57-260x400.png 260w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-15.30.57.png 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a result of the meeting I am now supplying the Parliament with more ideas on tax gaps and tax spillover. It was a useful session in my view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/05\/10\/how-to-beat-tax-cheating-oligarchs\/\"><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":[67,26,70,14,35,80,10,33,55,50,32,97,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-banking","category-corruption","category-economics","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-evasion","category-tax-gap","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice","category-tax-spillovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62885","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=62885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}