{"id":8304,"date":"2011-01-02T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T11:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2011-01-02T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T11:27:02","slug":"the-observer-on-uk-uncut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/02\/the-observer-on-uk-uncut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer on UK Uncut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/jan\/02\/business-new-year-resolutions?INTCMP=SRCH\">Observer has the following to say <\/a>about UK Uncut:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep up the good work. Your non-violent protests outside high-street chains have shoved tax avoidance on to the political agenda. Sir Philip Green is under pressure to explain why Topshop is registered in the name of his wife, Cristina, who is a tax resident in Monte Carlo. Boots is struggling to justify its domicile in an obscure canton of Switzerland. UK Uncut's adoption of David Cameron-style language is a masterstroke \u2014 the group's members call themselves \"Big Society Revenue &amp; Customs\". The business world is facing a long overdue question \u2014 aren't elaborate tax-avoidance gymnastics just as morally repugnant as tax evasion?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They won't be alone in thinking that in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>And business is not going to like it.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, of course, that business will have to embrace country by country reporting. Then they will be accountable for their tax. And what is the problem with that?<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer has the following to say about UK Uncut: Keep up the good work. Your non-violent protests outside high-street chains have shoved tax avoidance<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/02\/the-observer-on-uk-uncut\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304","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=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}