{"id":3472,"date":"2015-03-27T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:17:03","slug":"pay-your-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Pay your tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Activists dressed as tax collectors and doctors, accompanied by a giant piggy bank, presented a tax bill to Virgin Care on Wednesday (March 25), following the revelation that the firm continues to bid for NHS contracts despite extensive use of tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters from The Peoples NHS have joined forces with UKUncut following a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/uploaded\/documents\/Private%20Cos TTIP11-22313.docx\">new report from Unite the union<\/a>, which revealed Virgin Care\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lucrative NHS deals and tax haven status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was held just one day before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/ournhs\/caroline-molloy\/cameron%27s-biggest-broken-promise-on-nhs\">Virgin Care won a \u00c2\u0141280m contract to run NHS healthcare in East Staffordshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mark Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists dressed as tax collectors and doctors, accompanied by a giant piggy bank, presented a tax bill to Virgin Care on Wednesday (March 25), following the revelation that the firm continues to bid for NHS contracts despite extensive use of tax havens. &nbsp; &nbsp; Protesters from The Peoples NHS have joined forces with UKUncut following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[81],"wps_subtitle":"Activists demand tax dodgers be barred from NHS contracts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}