{"id":241,"date":"2003-12-02T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/tax_evasion\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T14:34:45","slug":"tax_evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/tax_evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com\/StoryFT\/FullStory&#038;c=StoryFT&#038;cid=1069493653508&#038;p=1012571727088\">U.S. corporate phenomenon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yukos, the Russian oil giant, owes the government unpaid taxes totalling 150bn roubles ($5.05bn), Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a letter from the tax ministry.<br \/>\nThe agency quoted from the letter that was addressed to the prosecutor general&#8217;s office. Interfax said the letter alleged that the company owed the amount in unpaid taxes but said the text had not made it clear whether Yukos had broken the law.<br \/>\nBoth the tax ministry and the prosecutor general&#8217;s office declined to comment.<br \/>\nYukos has said it used tax minimisation arrangements legally to keep tax bills low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound as if the Russian tax ministry is the most aggressive of agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/tax_evasion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tax Evasion\"><p>It&#8217;s not just a U.S. corporate phenomenon: Yukos, the Russian oil giant, owes the government unpaid taxes totalling 150bn roubles ($5.05bn), Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a letter from the tax ministry. The agency quoted from the letter that was addressed to the prosecutor general&#8217;s office. Interfax said the letter alleged that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}