{"id":11505,"date":"2011-08-15T14:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2011-08-15T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:07:47","slug":"most-people-in-isle-of-man-want-a-referendum-on-vat-deal-with-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/15\/most-people-in-isle-of-man-want-a-referendum-on-vat-deal-with-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Most people in Isle of Man want a referendum on VAT deal with UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isleofman.com\/News\/article.aspx?article=38570\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Man Today reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A LARGE majority of the Isle of Man\u2019s voters would like to see a referendum on any future proposals the government might put to the UK over VAT, according to an election survey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyfm.net\/cms\/news_story_164190.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Energy FM puts it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four out of five feel the Isle of Man has been treated unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>The majority are in favour of a referendum before accepting the new deal with the UK, and this feeling is strongest amongst the 16 to 24 age bracket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What's\u00a0vaguely\u00a0interesting about this is that they actually think the\u00a0Isle of Man has a negotiating\u00a0position. The truth is they've been told 'take it or leave it'. And rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not quite sure what they don't get\u00a0about\u00a0that. At least they're not being asked to repay past over-payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isle of Man Today reports: A LARGE majority of the Isle of Man\u2019s voters would like to see a referendum on any future proposals the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/15\/most-people-in-isle-of-man-want-a-referendum-on-vat-deal-with-uk\/\"><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":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","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=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}