{"id":8679,"date":"2011-02-03T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T08:07:59","slug":"149-billion-the-tax-disputed-by-just-22-uk-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/03\/149-billion-the-tax-disputed-by-just-22-uk-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c2\u00a314.9 billion &#8211; the tax disputed by just 22 UK companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has been looking at the management of H M Revenue &amp; Customs - and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/pagefiles\/54525\/CRC%20Final.pdf\">As they note, a<\/a>nd Private Eye report, 22 companies in the UK are disputing tax of more than \u00a3250 million each - a total sum of \u00a314.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And you want to tel me that the tax gap is not as big as I estimate - at \u00a312 billion a year in total for UK corporates?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but all the evidence stacks in my direction.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has been looking at the management of H M Revenue &amp; Customs &#8211; and rightly so. As they<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/03\/149-billion-the-tax-disputed-by-just-22-uk-companies\/\"><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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","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=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}