{"id":6407,"date":"2010-03-18T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/18\/to-washington\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:39:41","slug":"to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/18\/to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"To Washington&hellip;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m at the start of a pretty frantic round trip to Washington to meet the IMF with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialtaskforce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discussion will be highly focussed on what additional statistical data is needed to monitor the world&rsquo;s illicit financial flows.<\/p>\n<p>I do, of course, want the data that country-by-country reporting could provide on world trade flows and transfer pricing abuse.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s another issue of importance too. A lot of work is going on seeking to track flows out of tax havens \/ secrecy jurisdictions to make sure they are properly taxed. There is another side to this coin though. We need to know where they come from too. And we don&rsquo;t, which is why, as the IMF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/15\/of-course-there-are-trillions-offshore-and-now-the-imf-recognises-the-fact\/\" target=\"_blank\">has now noticed<\/a>, there are potentially $18 trillion dollars in small island states alone that they cannot account for.<\/p>\n<p>One hopes that at long last they&rsquo;re now open to dialogue on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m at the start of a pretty frantic round trip to Washington to meet the IMF with the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/18\/to-washington\/\"><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":[79,80,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}