{"id":10595,"date":"2011-06-21T06:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2011-06-21T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T05:33:38","slug":"10595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/21\/10595\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Isle of Man is so sure free markets works why are its financial services marketed at government expense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.international-adviser.com\/article\/isle-of-man-marketing-shakeup-unveiled\" target=\"_blank\">International Adviser notes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Isle of Man government has unveiled a radical shake-up in the way it promotes its financial services and related industries, which will involve the creation of a new \"public private sector promotion model\".<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>This new\u00a0promotional model will\u00a0provide for\u00a0the\u00a0sharing of resources and funding between all parties, the <span>IoM's<\/span> Department of Economic Development said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The total budget for financial services promotion will be more than \u00a32m and less than \u00a35m, spread out\u00a0over two years, an Isle of Man spokesman said. This is a marked increase in the budget from last year, he added, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Don't you just love it when the wheels of the international free movement of capital that the\u00a0Isle of Man facilitates have to be oiled by state subsidy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The word 'hypocrites' comes to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Adviser notes: The Isle of Man government has unveiled a radical shake-up in the way it promotes its financial services and related industries, which<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/21\/10595\/\"><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-10595","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\/10595","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=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}