{"id":11071,"date":"2011-07-15T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:19:31","slug":"note-to-the-isle-of-man-i-wont-be-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/15\/note-to-the-isle-of-man-i-wont-be-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to the Isle of Man &#8211; I won&#8217;t be going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>There was extensive coverage in the Isle of<\/span> Man yesterday on my comments on the new VAT deal for the island, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/12\/the-isle-of-man-has-now-lost-all-the-subsidy-i-said-it-enjoyed-my-campaign-on-this-issue-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">made here on Tuesday<\/a>. Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/newsread.aspx?id=53473\" target=\"_blank\">Manx Radio<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isleofman.com\/News\/article.aspx?article=37754\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Man Today<\/a> covered the story, reproducing much of my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Both seemed to think that my comment that this campaign was now over might mean I will pay less attention to the\u00a0Isle of Man in future. Far from it. There are still very good reasons for paying attention to it. It's tax system is still illegal and subject to EU sanction. It is still a tax haven, of course. It is still offering\u00a0pernicious\u00a0secrecy. It is still offering only limited\u00a0automatic information exchange. It is quite likely to go bust, which makes it a matter of\u00a0particular\u00a0interest.<\/p>\n<p><span>And the ordinary people of the\u00a0Isle of Man still need a government that represents their interest and not those of the finance industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I promise you - you've not heard the\u00a0last\u00a0of things yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was extensive coverage in the Isle of Man yesterday on my comments on the new VAT deal for the island, made here on Tuesday.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/15\/note-to-the-isle-of-man-i-wont-be-going-away\/\"><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-11071","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\/11071","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=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}