{"id":84975,"date":"2017-10-03T05:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T05:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e6f7c249014cc8157a5b96c928ab0da3"},"modified":"2017-10-03T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T05:08:59","slug":"companies-liable-if-employees-facilitate-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84975","title":{"rendered":"Companies liable if employees facilitate evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>The Criminal Finances Act 2017 which came into effect on 30 September has introduced two new criminal offences \u2013 one applying to the evasion of UK taxes and the other on evading foreign taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The offences hold corporations and partnerships criminally liable when they fail to prevent their employees, agents, or others who provide services on their behalf from facilitating tax evasion. This is a significant change from previous law, under which they could be found liable for criminally facilitating tax evasion only if the most senior members of the organisation &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Criminal Finances Act 2017 which came into effect on 30 September has introduced two new criminal offences &ndash; one applying to the evasion of UK taxes and the other on evading foreign taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The offences hold corporations and partnerships criminally liable when they fail to prevent their employees, agents, or others who provide services on their behalf from facilitating tax evasion. This is a significant change from previous law, under which they could be found liable for criminally facilitating tax evasion only if the most senior members of the organisation &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}