{"id":13659,"date":"2012-01-16T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2012-01-16T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:57:07","slug":"poor-old-jersey-as-it-fails-to-exploit-the-punters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/16\/poor-old-jersey-as-it-fails-to-exploit-the-punters\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor old Jersey as it fails to exploit the punters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisjersey.com\/news\/2012\/01\/14\/wheel-of-fortune-has-yet-to-spin-for-e-gaming-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Evening Post has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JERSEY\u2019S attempt to cash in on the multi-million-pound internet gaming industry has so far failed to bring in a single penny in revenue for the Island.<\/p>\n<p>And the move has hit a potentially disastrous stumbling block because Jersey licensed companies are currently banned from advertising in the UK \u2014 one of the most lucrative online gaming industries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>As a result not a single company has applied for a licence in Jersey, despite years of work and thousands of pounds of public investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing, isn't it, that a state can spend so much encouraging abuse and fail at it?<\/p>\n<p>But that's Jersey for you.<\/p>\n<p>And some say it is a perfect example of what a state should be. Time to think again, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jersey Evening Post has reported: JERSEY\u2019S attempt to cash in on the multi-million-pound internet gaming industry has so far failed to bring in a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/16\/poor-old-jersey-as-it-fails-to-exploit-the-punters\/\"><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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","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=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}