{"id":10062,"date":"2011-05-17T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T09:08:07","slug":"how-much-did-the-isle-of-man-pay-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/17\/how-much-did-the-isle-of-man-pay-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"How much did the Isle of Man pay for this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only presume today's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1d2fe630-7f5e-11e0-b239-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1MVGklJaB\" target=\"_blank\">comment\u00a0price in the FT on the Isle of Man<\/a> was paid for.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot be serious\u00a0journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Just a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the economy\u2019s diversity, for an island of 80,000 people, that has helped it come though the downturn with a slowdown rather than a recession.<\/p>\n<p>That did not come about by accident. The Isle of Man has painstakingly built niches in such areas as e-commerce, e-gaming, web hosting, filmmaking, and registering aircraft and ships to broaden its base and avoid over-reliance on financial services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Film making, I agree, was an innovation. Full marks. The rest are just more tax haven\u00a0activities! Who do they think they're kidding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only presume today&#8217;s\u00a0comment\u00a0price in the FT on the Isle of Man was paid for. It cannot be serious\u00a0journalism. Just a snippet: It is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/17\/how-much-did-the-isle-of-man-pay-for-this\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}