{"id":14843,"date":"2012-03-29T14:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:15:33","slug":"tories-believe-in-tax-simplification-like-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/tories-believe-in-tax-simplification-like-heck\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories believe in tax simplification &#8211; like heck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax simplification is a Tory mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/bills\/cbill\/2010-2012\/0325\/2012325.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Bill<\/a>, published today is at 670 pages (plus 16 extra pages of padding), longer than any Finance Act passed in the last 20 years according to the Chartered\u00a0Institute\u00a0of Tax<\/p>\n<p>And I now have the job of reading it.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/d\/finance_bill2012_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">explanatory notes<\/a> are shorter though - just 508 pages.<\/p>\n<p>So much for simplification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax simplification is a Tory mantra. Which is why the Finance Bill, published today is at 670 pages (plus 16 extra pages of padding), longer<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/tories-believe-in-tax-simplification-like-heck\/\"><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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843","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=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}