{"id":12350,"date":"2011-10-12T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T07:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2011-10-12T08:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T07:07:58","slug":"channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-end-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/12\/channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-end-is-nigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Islands&#8217; VAT abuse: the end is nigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelonline.tv\/channelonline\/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=496475\" target=\"_blank\">Channel Online, yesterday:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Channel Television can reveal that Jersey's fulfillment industry have been warned that Low Value Consignment Relief could be reduced or even scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>LVCR is a tax loophole by which UK consumers can buy goods from the islands and not pay VAT.<\/p>\n<p>We have learnt that at a private meeting, Jersey's Economic Development Minister warned the island's companies to prepare for the worst.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so another campaign against\u00a0Crown Dependency tax abuse looks to be\u00a0heading\u00a0for a\u00a0successful\u00a0close.<\/p>\n<p>I've begun to forget the scopre now, except I know they've got zero.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I know this one is not over yet. I just emphasis the 'yet'.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you were a Chancellor looking at \u00a3200 million extra a year right now would you turn it down? Not even George Osborne could do that. Surely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Channel Online, yesterday: Channel Television can reveal that Jersey&#8217;s fulfillment industry have been warned that Low Value Consignment Relief could be reduced or even<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/12\/channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-end-is-nigh\/\"><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":[4,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guernsey","category-jersey","category-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","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=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}