{"id":59240,"date":"2026-05-03T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/59240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:38:09","slug":"hmrc-could-lose-1-5bn-glencore-tax-dispute-in-secret-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/59240\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC could lose \u00a31.5bn Glencore tax dispute in secret \u2018al&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">\u201cHMRC insists that the era of aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals is over. This justifies the \u2018co-operative compliance\u2019 approach they take to very large businesses, unlike with ordinary taxpayers,\u201d says Mike Lewis, director at TaxWatch. \u201cLitigation is very rare, and available powers and penalties sit unused on the statute book. Though some large companies have undoubtedly changed their tax behaviour, this case raises the question of whether HMRC has \u2018defanged\u2019 itself when dealing with multinationals which do not co-operate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHMRC insists that the era of aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals is over. This justifies the \u2018co-operative compliance\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[114,132,17,178,497,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-59240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glencore","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-glencore","10":"tag-switzerland","11":"tag-tax","12":"tag-trade","13":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116509036206999586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}