{"id":1215,"date":"2016-03-04T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2016-03-04T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:56:03","slug":"embarrassment-for-hmrc-over-advertising-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/embarrassment-for-hmrc-over-advertising-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassment for HMRC over advertising figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue &#038; Customs (HMRC) spends six times the amount advertising on Facebook than the social media site pays in tax, it was claimed this week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by reporters at Channel 4 news revealed that last year the web giant was paid \u00a327,000 by the tax authority to promote its services.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the previous year Facebook had paid a paltry \u00a34,327 in tax.<\/p>\n<p>And ironically, many of the adverts that HMRC had posted on the site were to offer advice to people and businesses about how to pay their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>A HMRC spokesman said: \u201cLike all large organisations we find that an increasing number of those we serve communicate through and get their information from social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investment in social media is carefully evaluated to ensure we are getting maximum value for the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is one of several companies to come under increased scrutiny over its tax arrangements and has been accused of paying a corporation tax rate which effectively amounts to a little over three per cent. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued following Channel 4\u2019s probe, Facebook said: \u201cWe are compliant with UK tax law and in fact all countries where we have employees and offices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue &#038; Customs (HMRC) spends six times the amount advertising on Facebook than the social media site pays in tax, it was claimed this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}