{"id":14581,"date":"2012-03-12T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2012-03-12T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:49:46","slug":"the-channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-ongoing-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/12\/the-channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-ongoing-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Channel Islands&#8217; VAT abuse &#8211; the ongoing saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much is going on I am having problems\u00a0covering\u00a0it all.<\/p>\n<p>So let me just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/mar\/11\/channel-islands-last-bid-vat-free-retailing?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">point\u00a0at this important Guardian story<\/a> on the\u00a0ongoing\u00a0saga of the Channel Islands, vat abuse and\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs'\u00a0incompetence or complicity\u00a0in the face of it.<\/p>\n<p>Even now HMRC seem to be doing their best to lose this case.<\/p>\n<p>Thank heavens for Richard Allen and his campaign that is still holding them to account.<\/p>\n<p>What really annoys me though is that Jersey thinks we should feel\u00a0sorry\u00a0for them\u00a0because\u00a0they'll have some more unemployed as a result of this activity. What about the thousands who lost their jobs here as a\u00a0result\u00a0of this abuse? Typically, Jersey is totally\u00a0indifferent\u00a0to them. My sympathy is not overflowing as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much is going on I am having problems\u00a0covering\u00a0it all. So let me just\u00a0point\u00a0at this important Guardian story on the\u00a0ongoing\u00a0saga of the Channel Islands, vat<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/12\/the-channel-islands-vat-abuse-the-ongoing-saga\/\"><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-14581","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\/14581","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=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}