{"id":3246,"date":"2009-09-08T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/15\/diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T10:28:30","slug":"diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Diageo branded socially irresponsible for UK tax avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forargyll.com\/2009\/09\/diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance\/\" title=\"2009-09-15_diageo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009-09-15_diageo.jpg\" title=\"2009-09-15_diageo.jpg\" alt=\"2009-09-15_diageo.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>A leading business analyst has branded the company socially irresponsible. This particular act of social irresponsibility is not about Kilmarnock and Port Dundas in Glasgow where a further 200 jobs are to go &#8211; but about Diageo\u2019s UK tax avoidance. As For Argyll has previously reported, between 2000 and 2006, Diageo transferred billions of pounds worth of brands \u2013 including Johnnie Walker and J&amp;B \u2013 to Diageo Brands BV, a Dutch subsidiary. The Netherlands offers the significant tax advantage of profits accrued almost tax-free. Image source :Thegotogroup.org <span style=\"color: green\"><\/span> . &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/forargyll.com\/2009\/09\/diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Region: UK<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> &#8211; EthicalQuote link<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">: <\/span><font class=\"tdtext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\">Diageo<\/a><\/font><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/forargyll.com\/2009\/09\/diageo-branded-socially-irresponsible-for-uk-tax-avoidance\/\" target=\"_blank\">For Argyll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading business analyst has branded the company socially irresponsible. This particular act of social irresponsibility is not about Kilmarnock and Port Dundas in Glasgow where a further 200 jobs are to go &#8211; but about Diageo\u2019s UK tax avoidance. As For Argyll has previously reported, between 2000 and 2006, Diageo transferred billions of pounds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-diageo","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}