{"id":40865,"date":"2013-11-03T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_company_register_in_uk_to_remove_cloak_of_secrecyhiding_corruption_and_t\/"},"modified":"2013-11-03T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:00:31","slug":"ft_company_register_in_uk_to_remove_cloak_of_secrecyhiding_corruption_and_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40865","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Company register in UK to remove \u201d\u02dccloak of secrecy\u2019hiding corruption and tax evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners praised Mr [David] Cameron for taking a lead. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and chairman of Christian Aid, said it was a \u201cbrave decision\u201d\u009d that involved facing down vested interests.<\/p>\n<p>Global Witness, an anti-corruption group, said it was a \u201chistoric rollback of corporate secrecy\u201d\u009d. Gavin Hayman, director, said: \u201cLife is about to get much more difficult for corrupt politicians, arms traders, drug traffickers and tax evaders. Other countries, including the British tax havens, the EU and the US, now need to follow the UK\u2019s leadership.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>ActionAid, a campaign group, said it would welcome a public registry but said other transparency measures were needed, including country-by-country reporting of tax payments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/f71fab54-417c-11e3-9073-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld_uk_politics%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&#038;siteedition=uk&#038;siteedition=intl#axzz2jHlI4Lz\">Read it all<\/a> (if neceesary another link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;ved=0CD8QqQIwAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff71fab54-417c-11e3-9073-00144feabdc0.html&#038;ei=cX11Uv3QGrGpsAT74oGgBA&#038;usg=AFQjCNH3ZgKQjp20VjdYDODvYAiq9Z_OAw&#038;bvm=bv.55819444,d.cWc\">there<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners praised Mr [David] Cameron for taking a lead. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and chairman of Christian Aid, said it was a \u201cbrave decision\u201d\u009d that involved facing down vested interests. Global Witness, an anti-corruption group, said it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40865\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,381,67,589,149,199,168,114,151,108,587,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-taxes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}