{"id":5237,"date":"2013-06-30T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T03:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2013-06-30T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T03:23:38","slug":"whole-foods%e2%80%99-john-mackey-backs-corporate-tax-avoidance-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods\u2019 John Mackey backs corporate tax avoidance tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/a41bc804-dfe6-11e2-bf9d-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XlABWOyg\">Andrew Hill:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said GE \u201cmight be paying no taxes because they\u2019ve got special crony capitalistic favours from the government, and [are earning] certain tax credits because they\u2019re investing in alternative energy\u201d. In response, GE said it paid \u201csignificant income taxes in the US, and our US tax rate reflects laws that encourage investments supporting US jobs and economic growth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mackey, whose conservative views have in the past placed him at odds with customers of his food stores, said he thought Tim Cook, Apple\u2019s chief executive, should have been \u201cmore aggressive\u201d in laying out the company\u2019s position at a US Senate committee hearing in May into corporate tax.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hill: He said GE \u201cmight be paying no taxes because they\u2019ve got special crony capitalistic favours from the government, and [are earning] certain tax credits because they\u2019re investing in alternative energy\u201d. In response, GE said it paid \u201csignificant income taxes in the US, and our US tax rate reflects laws that encourage investments supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}