{"id":9581,"date":"2011-04-08T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:18:37","slug":"more-trouble-for-the-rev-lord-greens-old-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/08\/more-trouble-for-the-rev-lord-greens-old-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"More trouble for the Rev Lord Green&#8217;s old bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/10\/31\/why-is-the-condem-government-suddenly-so-keen-on-switzerland\/\">'ve noted the<\/a> problems the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Green_(banker)\">Rev Lord Green's<\/a> had in the past with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/09\/27\/closing-in-on-the-tax-evaders\/\">spot of tax evasion in accounts run by his old bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/08\/business\/global\/08tax.html?_r=1\"> note the New York Times says t<\/a>oday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The world of offshore tax havens gained a surprising new contender on Thursday when the Justice Department asked a federal court for permission to force HSBC, the London-based bank, to turn over the names of wealthy Indian-American clients suspected of evading taxes through offshore accounts at the bank\u2019s affiliate in India.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it's OK. The Rev Green is now a Lord and a minister for trade and industry in the Conservatiove government.<\/p>\n<p>So let's not worry about what happened on his old patch, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noted the problems the Rev Lord Green&#8217;s had in the past with a spot of tax evasion in accounts run by his old bank.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/08\/more-trouble-for-the-rev-lord-greens-old-bank\/\"><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":[70,104,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-india","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","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=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}